From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Run-Time Type Assignment
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:03:21 GMT
Date: 2002-08-28T18:03:21+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Jf8b9.15221$zT.6491@nwrddc04.gnilink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccn0r7hx5y.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
news:wccn0r7hx5y.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>
> > What is a downward closure ?
>
> The ability to pass a procedure as a parameter to a procedure.
<snip>
> GNAT supports downward closures via the 'Unrestricted_Access attribute,
> but that's not Ada (unfortunately).
What about using just the plain old 'Access attribute to pass a pointer to
the procedure as a parameter? That is supported by all Ada 95 compilers.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-28 6:53 Run-Time Type Assignment Robert C. Leif
2002-08-28 11:04 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-28 13:35 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-28 14:56 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-28 14:31 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-28 14:59 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-08-28 22:32 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-29 22:55 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-28 18:03 ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
2002-08-28 18:37 ` Pat Rogers
2002-08-28 22:47 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-29 13:32 ` Ben Brosgol
2002-08-29 13:52 ` SIMON Claude
2002-08-29 14:30 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-29 18:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-29 14:56 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-30 3:04 ` Ben Brosgol
2002-08-30 22:54 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-29 15:09 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-29 14:29 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-28 13:41 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-28 17:15 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-28 20:27 ` Björn Lundin
[not found] <002a01c24e5f$9ee347b0$789a0844@robertqgx6k4x9>
2002-08-28 11:33 ` sk
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2002-08-28 11:37 ` sk
2002-08-28 15:39 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-28 18:53 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-08-28 20:54 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-28 22:55 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-29 3:18 ` Robert C. Leif
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2002-08-28 16:06 ` sk
2002-08-28 22:44 ` tmoran
2002-08-29 0:37 ` tmoran
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