From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: What's the point?
Date: 1996/08/10
Date: 1996-08-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.839732247@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3209CDC8.8A4@comm.hq.af.mil
The Quelisher said
"> If Ada95 allows dereferencing the ".all" call for pointer variables,
> then what's the point of even having a ".all" call in the first place?
> Is this a carryover from Ada83 or something?"
x.all is just like *x in C. The only difference is that in Ada you can
optionally omit the explicit deference if you select a component (e.g.
x.c can be used instead of x.all.c) or if you index an array (e.g.
x(a..b) can be used instead of x.all(a..b))
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1996-08-05 0:00 What's the point? The Quelisher
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Chad Bremmon
1996-08-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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