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EGarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> So far, I only know the "shared/weak pointer" idiom.  If Ada offers
> something else, besides manual reclamation, I am eager to learn about
> it.

Would ref-counted smart pointers suit you? I'd address your problem by
having a smart pointer to a limited-controlled object representing the
resource, whose finalization would clean up the resource.

The smart pointer I wrote a while back (2003!) is at [1] (change to .adb
for the body). There are more modern ones, including AdaMagica's [2].

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/booch95/code/ci/default/tree/src/bc-support-smart_pointers.ads
[2] http://www.christ-usch-grein.homepage.t-online.de/Ada/Smart_Pointers.html