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From: Oliver Kowalke <oliver.kowalke@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: smart pointer dangerous (no -> operator)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:46:50 +0100
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:04:57 +0100, Oliver Kowalke wrote:
>> Ada doesn't support the dereference operator -> as C++.

> It is difficult, since there is no any delegation support in Ada.

What are the reasons not to introduce it into Ada2005?

> P.S. My implementation of proxy object can be found here
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/components.htm#Objects_etc

Thanks! I'll take a look into your library

regards,
Oliver