From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e9f44aef4f5aee18 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Access to procedures Date: 1999/06/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 494203632 References: <37737285.5CF9ED5F@Maths.UniNe.CH> article <3774FAC2.39EEB49E@Maths.UniNe.CH> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 930421811 206 bpr@206.184.139.136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-06-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Gautier wrote: > Thank you for your suggestion - the idea is valuable. That was an instance of the Command pattern in patternspeak, though the GoF book says that some C++ folk call it a "functor". While I've heard this usage of functor, I don't like it (ML bigotry :-). > In that precise context, I want to avoid making this > small unzip library depend even on the _existence_ > of all that feedbacks because an intended > usage is a complete "invisible" unpacking, allowing > programs to load data from a zipped one. > > The "unrestricted_access" way seems much more simple, > though - it seems - only provided by GNAT presently. Well, I suppose there is an argument that using this non-portable feature will pressure other vendors to provide it, or a similar feature. GNAT has quite a few improvements over pure Ada. -- Brian