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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c0d4e990924eb044 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.plusnet!news.posted.plusnet.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:31:37 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:31:29 +0000 From: Tim Rowe User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie question -- dereferencing access References: <72516b38-1711-4588-b53b-7b42773f70c2@w34g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <1IednThMP8E8sCfUnZ2dnUVZ8suWnZ2d@posted.plusnet> <71ut2oFn4m2pU1@mid.individual.net> <49BA8A57.7090200@tgrowe.plus.net> <49ba8f44$0$31873$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> In-Reply-To: <49ba8f44$0$31873$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-q3SqCgR0+YnV296RlFLnxMoLCVQcpKA7ekzCELI2qpA9BlVbqyg54HdW5PIh2E5g5GYrcKI+1jNl/Jh!A5jvbX9btYtz4ZPBFbl2scHZbHjcKxf7g05okNwdpHMkNNnr8lLVPPo9WBhYB9uYDDkolVDkAQXE!gz6bX04IDvZP X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5083 Date: 2009-03-13T17:31:29+00:00 List-Id: 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?)