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Subject: Re: little precision about anonymous access types
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Thanks.
 Now I've gotten my hands on Barnes' book (hourra !!), I couldn't help go s=
traight to the access types' chapter. I don't why I so like this part, desp=
ite that I already have been able to see how much the semantic of "referenc=
es" 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 featu=
re would have be included without some sort of assurance that it could be d=
eallocated, automatically. Otherwise it would be nothing short of insanely =
crazy batshit.