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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Future Ada language revisions?
Date: 1998/10/05
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Actually Alfred, Ada 95 *does* support the equivalent of C function
pointers, although you'll have to use the Ada terminology "access to 
subprogram" to find them. 

If you really want to be a trouble-maker, you'll complain that the
limitations on them make them only as powerful as C's function pointers, 
and less powerful than Pascal's function arguments (terminology?), and in 
that case I can point you directly to the long arguments on why they are 
so restricted :-)

-- Brian

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Alfred Hilscher wrote:

> I have an other question to the Ada95 design: Why does Ada not support
> simple PROCEDURE-Types (like C or Modula). When writing GUI
> applications, one needs always to pass callback routines. They are in
> fact passed as procedure variables. In Ada one have to pass adresses
> instead. While Ada has task type, I did not found any procedure type. Is
> there really none (and if, why not) or am I blind ?
> 
> Alfred
> 
>