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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: We should introduce aliased types
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 22:57:21 +0300
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Randy Brukardt wrote:

> "Victor Porton" <porton@narod.ru> wrote in message
> news:lrgp2h$h3n$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> ...
>> One situation in which we need aliased types (not a single aliased
>> variable)
>> is Initialize() procedure for controlled types.
> 
> This is already true. Controlled types are by-reference, so it's legal to
> take 'Access of a subprogram parameter of the type. Specifically:
> 
>     procedure Initialize (Obj : T) is
>     begin
>          Obj.Ptr := T'Unchecked_Access;
>     end Initialize;
> 
> is legal.
> 
> Did you actually try this before writing??

Sorry, Randy. I've tried but not with a tagged type. Now I see it does 
already work with tagged types.

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org