Re: pointer questions

[Szymon Guz <alpha@skynet.org.pl_WITHOUT>]

Jeffrey R. Carter napisał(a):
> Szymon Guz wrote:
> 
>> I've got some maybe stupid questions but I don't understand some things:
>>
>> 1. Is there a pointer like (void *) from C that points to anything ?
>>
>> 2. Is there a universal (like above) pointer for procedure|function 
>> that  can point to any kind of procedure|funcion ?
> 
> 
> The short answer, as you've already heard, is No.
> 
> The long answer is that you'll never need these to use Ada. In fact, 
> you'll rarely need pointers at all. If you think you do, especially for 
> beginning Ada, then you're probably misunderstanding something.
> 
> About the only time you'd need anything like these is when interfacing 
> to C. Judging from your questions, I suspect your understanding of Ada 
> is not yet at a level where you should be doing that.
> 

Well, that's how I thought but I wanted to ask. The problem that I want 
to solve is how to create a property in type like that ones in 
Delphi|Builder, so I have defined the property name, value, read and 
write functions. I thought that it could be done by defining a generic 
structure like this:

Name
Value
Get_Function
Set_Function

when Value is a pointer to value, Get and Set are pointers to function 
for setting and getting the value. That's why I thought about universal 
variable pointer.
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Well, now I sought that it ca easily be done without any pointer, sorry

regards
szymon guz