Re: Access keyword

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 30 Kwi, 17:20, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:

> I suspect that Randy was talking only about anonymous access-to-object
> parameters.

Then I don't really see what kind of "rotten" design they could
possibly support.
The only documented use for them in Ada that I've seen was to simplify
the definition of List_Node-like records. Looks like a reasonable
rationalization. What are the pitfalls?

> Anonymous access-to-subprogram parameters (which Ada.Containers does
> use) are a different animal altogether.  They do serve a legitimate
> purpose

Yes - I was afraid that this legitimate use was considered harmful.

> [Apologies if this is a duplicate post... Google Groups, which is
> apparently written in C++, was not behaving right...]

If we are already trolling, then some correction is in order here. As
far as I know, Google Groups was written in Java and indeed is a crap
(I'm using it as well). When it comes to C++, however, then as far as
I know, it was used for the search engine, which not only works
perfectly and blazing fast, but actually allowed Google to become what
they are - the IT giant - to the point where they can later write
crappy newsgroups system in Java and it's still OK because everybody
uses it anyway. Oh well... ;-)

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