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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: subprogram must not be deeper than access type
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:40:06 -0700
Date: 2011-10-04T11:40:06-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j6fnrg$rtu$1@tornado.tornevall.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.v2s75jaiule2fv@index.ici>

On 10/03/2011 09:30 PM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> Le Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:59:55 +0200, Jeffrey Carter
>>
>> I think anonymous types are the language design flaw.
>
> There were introduced for the need of anonymous access type to subprograms, but
> 1) were applied to objects in the while 2) there were probably alternatives (as
> the mentioned rational recognized). So, may be you are right. I confess I don't
> really enjoy anonymous access type too.

Ada always had anonymous array types:

V : array (1 .. 10) of Duration;

Anonymous access types in the form of access parameters were introduced in Ada 
95, to make passing a pointer to an imported function from C (or similar 
languages) easier. Never mind that a named convention-C access type did the job 
just fine. More recently, we've been treated to a whole slew of kinds of 
anonymous access types, apparently to make C-in-Ada easier to write.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I was hobbling along, minding my own business, all of a
sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with
a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone! Not so much as a
'by your leave!' You're cured, mate. Bloody do-gooder!"
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-04 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-25  9:02 subprogram must not be deeper than access type Natasha Kerensikova
2011-09-25 14:04 ` Oliver Kleinke
2011-09-26  9:35   ` Natasha Kerensikova
2011-10-03 23:30   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-03 23:39     ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-04  0:52       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04  1:48         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-09-25 14:23 ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-25 15:03 ` georg bauhaus
2011-09-26  9:45   ` Natasha Kerensikova
2011-09-26 13:43     ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-26 14:20       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-26 16:15         ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-26 19:30           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-27  0:41             ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-27  8:58               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-04  4:19               ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-09-27  5:50             ` J-P. Rosen
2011-09-27  7:52               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-04  4:26                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04  7:58                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-04 15:10                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-04 15:34                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-04 15:49                         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04 16:04                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-04 15:44                       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04 16:05                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-04 16:47                           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04 15:41                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-09-26 18:59       ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-09-27  0:35         ` Robert A Duff
2011-10-04  4:30         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04 18:40           ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2011-09-26 14:29     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-26 15:31       ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-04  4:35       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04  4:13     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-09-25 17:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-09-25 21:53   ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-26  9:25     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-26 23:00     ` Randy Brukardt
2011-09-27  0:34       ` Robert A Duff
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