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From: Sven <sven.weidauer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to pass around access types to interfaces?
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:49:36 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-10-24T05:49:36-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2040b62-aea2-4696-b70b-bcfe121cd82c@17g2000hsk.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4901be81$0$23607$4f793bc4@news.tdc.fi

> I assume this type declaration is in the main *procedure*. This
> means that the type has a local scope and life, which prevents
> converting its values to a more long-lived access type. Try
> declaring Concrete_Type in a package; that makes it live as long as
> the whole program, and should allow such conversions.

Yeah, the declaration was in the main procedure. When moving it to a
package everything works like it's supposed to. Thanks for your help.

I guess I have still a lot to learn about Ada. I was just thinking
about the lifetime of the object. It never occured to me that a type
also has a lifetime.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-24 11:45 How to pass around access types to interfaces? Sven
2008-10-24 12:24 ` Niklas Holsti
2008-10-24 12:49   ` Sven [this message]
2008-10-24 13:55     ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-10-24 21:32 ` sjw
2008-10-25  8:54   ` Sven
2008-10-25 15:43 ` Martin Krischik
2008-10-25 22:15   ` Robert A Duff
2008-10-26  8:02     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-26 15:50     ` Martin Krischik
2008-10-28 13:41       ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-10-29 14:15         ` Martin Krischik
2008-10-31 13:38           ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-10-31 14:46             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-29 12:42   ` Sven
2008-10-29 13:17     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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