From: dewar@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Q. on Automatic Package Finalization
Date: 1996/10/06
Date: 1996-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.844606855@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 325531FC.82B@watson.ibm.com
Norman Cohen says
"Unfortunately, the restriction is necessary to prevent dangling
references:"
Sure, but Ada allows dangling references in many situations, so I see no
reason to be *too* hard-nosed in absolutely forbidding this possibility,
provided that it is clear to the programmer what risks are there (I did
not put Unchecked_Access into the language :-)
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1996-09-28 0:00 Q. on Automatic Package Finalization Robert Dewar
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-22 0:00 david scott gibson
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Jens Jakob Jensen
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