Re: Pointers explained?

[Ed Falis <falis@verizon.net>]

shaunpatterson@gmail.com wrote:

> It appears that the only way to get a Message_Class is by some where
> in the
> code using a "new"
>
> Is this assumption correct?

No.  If you allocate a Message object statically (in package data), you
can do something like:

X : aliased Specific_Message_Type;

function Get_One return Message_Class is
begin
   return X'Access;
end Get_One;