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On 19-Apr-14 13:17, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2014-04-19, Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> wrote:
>> On 19/04/14 13:50, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>>> Access types are required no matter what :/
>>
>> Parasail (and some other experimental languages, I think) seem
>> to tackle pointing with the help of components marked "optional",
>> accompanied by specially designed definitions for copying, moving, and
>> swapping. This combination is said to prevent the dangers of pointers.
>>
>> http://parasail-programming-language.blogspot.de/2012/08/a-pointer-free-path-to-object-oriented.html
>>
>
>  From what I can tell from that page, they still appear to be implemented
> as pointers but it's just that this isn't directly visible at user code
> level.
>
> I wonder where I've heard of the concept of type checked pointers
> before ? :-) (IOW, look at the author's name; I didn't see that until
> well into the page.)
>
> Simon.

Tucker Taft? Who the heck is that? Nobody on comp.lang.ada is familiar 
with that guy. ;)