Re: Q: Pointers to procedures/functions

[jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)]

In article <1997Apr11.143821.5866@news> Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch (Gautier) writes:

> Is there a way to have pointers to procedures in Ada ?
> 
> I wish to use e.g. functions float -> float as parameters for a graph
> procedure.
> 
> G.

In Ada95, no problem.  Here's a snip from the Rationale:

  "type Trig_Function is access function(F: Float) return Float;

   T: Trig_Function;
   X, Theta: Float;

and T can then "point to" functions such as Sin, Cos and Tan. We can
then assign an appropriate access-to-subprogram value to T by for
example

   T := Sin'Access;"

If you are stuck with Ada(83), the vendor for your compiler has
probably supplied an implementation dependent way to do this.

/Jon

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