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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c56a86f3a4e16d06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-11-19 20:37:29 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sjc-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Containers with Ada In-Reply-To: <8v8vbr$htl$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Message-ID: References: <8v8pii$dvo$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8v8vbr$htl$1@nnrp1.deja.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:37:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.139.136 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sjc-read.news.verio.net 974695057 206.184.139.136 (Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:37:37 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 04:37:37 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:2253 Date: 2000-11-20T04:37:37+00:00 List-Id: 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