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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a6449b2443dcdda1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Access keyword Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <2cc577f4-704a-4235-aad4-a29186309c02@k10g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.3.64.148 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1209591134 1919 127.0.0.1 (30 Apr 2008 21:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.3.64.148; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21151 Date: 2008-04-30T14:32:13-07:00 List-Id: On 30 Kwi, 17:20, Adam Beneschan 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... ;-) -- Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com