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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question -- dereferencing access
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:19:02 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mar 13, 9:55=A0am, Tim Rowe <spamt...@tgrowe.plus.net> wrote:
> Ed Falis wrote:
> > Try the books on this page:http://www.adaic.org/free/freebook.html
>
> > Richard Riehle's "Ada Distilled" may be exactly what you're looking for=
,
> > as it's aimed at experienced programmers.
>
> Thanks. I am now working through "Ada Distilled". I'm a little nervous
> that it says "very little about Ada.Finalization, Storage Pool
> Management [...]" -- I hope the "very little" it says is enough for me
> to be able to use access types without memory leaks! I suppose I'll find
> out when I get there.

You may find that you simply don't need to use access types by using
the Ada.Containers.* packages. Not forgetting the Ada.Strings.*
packages too. I can't remember off hand when I last resorted to using
an access type...

Cheers
-- Martin