Re: Newbie question -- dereferencing access

[Tim Rowe <spamtrap@tgrowe.plus.net>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Tim Rowe schrieb:
>> Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> 
>> But I can't put an unconstrained type into a record.
> 
> Have you seen Bounded_String (and Unbounded_String)?

Not yet, but I'll go and explore...

> OK, but not every implementations requires programmer defined
> deallocation :-) Ada on the JVM delegates storage handling
> to the VM.

And I understand that on .NET it delegates it to .NET. But I can't 
imagine Ada running on the JVM or .NET in the sorts of mission-critical 
applications with which Ada won its spurs! (Of course, those 
applications would avoid access types pretty thoroughly too, wouldn't they?)