Re: little precision about anonymous access types

[Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com>]

Thanks.
 Now I've gotten my hands on Barnes' book (hourra !!), I couldn't help go straight to the access types' chapter. I don't why I so like this part, despite that I already have been able to see how much the semantic of "references" is different (and a pain in the neck) than of normal variables.

so the book says:
type cell is
record
   next: access cell;
   value: data;
end record;

even though unchecked_deallocation doesn't work, I can't believe this feature would have be included without some sort of assurance that it could be deallocated, automatically. Otherwise it would be nothing short of insanely crazy batshit.