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From: dewar@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Q. on Automatic Package Finalization
Date: 1996/10/06
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Date: 1996-10-06T00:00:00+00:00
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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 :-)