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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: We should introduce aliased types
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 21:54:06 +0300
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Date: 2014-08-01T21:54:06+03:00
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I think we should introduce aliased types to allow self-referencing objects 
and objects which we can access for object's internal purposes:

type T is aliased
   record
      Ptr: access all T;
   end;

Every value of an aliased type should be aliased (whether we specify that 
the particular value if aliased or don't specify).

Then we could create a self-referencing object by a code (say in Initialize) 
like this:

declare
   X: T;
begin
   X.Ptr = X.Unchecked_Access;
end;

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org