From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7272aa7508a3d83f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.volia.net!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!carbon.eu.sun.com!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Dowie Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: pointer questions Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:29:14 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: host86-131-223-248.range86-131.btcentralplus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com 1130434154 13411 86.131.223.248 (27 Oct 2005 17:29:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:29:14 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6002 Date: 2005-10-27T17:29:14+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > Maybe the kinds of programs I write are different. Question for those > who rarely use access types: what sort of application areas are you > talking about? Mine are usually software development tools -- such as > compilers. Embedded defence apps and I can't remember the last time I needed an access type! There's no need in this sort of app, as you know at compile time what the maximum number of anything your system is required to deal with, so you can always use a lookup table of some sort (even if it has an 'In_Use : Boolean' field/discriminant. Cheers -- Martin