From: hfrumblefoot@yahoo.com (Hambut)
Subject: Re: Ada and pointers
Date: 15 Aug 2001 05:49:21 -0700
Date: 2001-08-15T12:49:21+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb75c450.0108150449.11fe4c74@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1ope7.5943$6R6.582900@news1.cableinet.net
Tony Gair <tony@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:<1ope7.5943$6R6.582900@news1.cableinet.net>...
<snip>
> Incidently I heard a statement by a colleague ten years ago saying pointers
> are not actually necessary in any construction of code no-matter the
> purpose because it had been mathematically proven so". A very strong
> statement.... has anyone heard of this or was it hot air,
>
Seems a bit too strong. It strikes me that explicitly getting rid of
pointers (or access types) would just move the problems elsewhere..
you'd still have all the nasty keeping track of references issues,
they'd just be transposed to, say, an array construct.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-13 7:05 How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack Gautier Write-only-address
2001-08-15 7:19 ` Ada and pointers Tony Gair
2001-08-15 12:49 ` Hambut [this message]
2001-08-15 13:33 ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-15 12:57 ` Jonathan DeSena
2001-08-16 1:46 ` Tony Gair
2001-08-16 13:37 ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-16 15:43 ` Darren New
2001-08-16 16:29 ` James Rogers
2001-08-16 16:56 ` Darren New
2001-08-17 14:58 ` Ted Dennison
2001-08-17 17:14 ` Darren New
2001-08-15 16:02 ` James Rogers
2001-08-15 17:16 ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-15 19:52 ` James Rogers
2001-08-15 21:00 ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-15 18:54 ` Hambut
2001-08-15 19:53 ` Marin David Condic
2001-08-16 8:25 ` Hambut
2001-08-15 16:25 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-08-15 13:37 ` Ted Dennison
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