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christoph.grein@eurocopter.com wrote:

> I have Barnes' "Programming in Ada 2005" and there is a "derefrencing"
> entry in the index; I would be very astonished if this wasn't also
> present in his older book. See the chapter about Access Types.

There is an entry for dereferencing in the Ada95 book, pointing to two 
pages. Dereferincing those pointers (!) I find that what both pages say 
about dereferencing is that it's automatic, unlike Pascal. I read the 
Access Types chapter a few times, but didn't find the idiom I needed or 
anything that would help me to find the idiom. Now I know what the 
answer is, I can see it in Barnes, so I can't say he didn't cover it, 
but the way he did it wasn't clear to this particular newbie!