Re: Access type to member procedure of instance (Object Oriented programming in Ada)

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:28:07 AM UTC-8, Brian Drummond wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:59:06 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> > The "name" (Ada synax terminology) "Message.Print" represents a
> > parameterless procedure, and can be used in the same way as other
> > parameterless procedures. In particular, it can be renamed as a
> > parameterless procedure:
> 
> >     procedure P renames Message.Print;
> 
> ...
> 
> procedure Main is
>    Message : Some_Package.Message_Type; 
>    procedure P renames Message.Print;
> begin
>    Message.Print;
>    P;
> end Main;
> 
> ...
> ./main
> Hello
> Hello
> 
> Damn that's nice!
> 
> Where's the upvote button on this thing?

Fortunately, we don't have one.

By the way, you cannot rename Message.Print with a "renaming-as-body".

                               -- Adam