Re: Containers with Ada

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Robert Dewar wrote:
> It is by the way a definite limitation in Ada 95 that some
> facilities of the language do not extend fully to nested
> subprograms (though not quite as much a limitation as not
> having nested subprograms at all, as in C or C++ :-)

I guess for my tastes these restrictions one inherits from the use of 
controlled types with respect to nested subprograms makes their use 
for container libraries problematic. I use nested subprograms a lot, even 
in a low level language like Ada. ("Low level" is not used in a pejorative 
sense here :).

Obviously the restrictions with respect to access to subprogram are
bothersome too but if that irritates me I just use another language. 

-- Brian