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-Thread: 103376,fba47412041a3607 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Differences with/without .all Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <647ktoF2acjggU1@mid.individual.net> <871w696pxz.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1205854548 912 127.0.0.1 (18 Mar 2008 15:35:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:35:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20466 Date: 2008-03-18T08:35:47-07:00 List-Id: On Mar 17, 3:51 pm, I wrote: > [The main reason for 6.4(8) is: Suppose "Func" denotes an access-to- > function type. A bit sloppy of me... of course I meant "a value of an access-to- function type". -- Adam > If you say Func(param,param,param), this results in an > implicit dereference of Func, and a call to the function pointed to by > Func. But you cannot get a call to the function pointed to by Func if > there is no parameter list, even if the function type doesn't have any > parameters, or all parameters have defaults. You must to say Func.all > in that case.]