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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On 2018-02-10 12:55, Mehdi Saada wrote:
>>> Cursors (= pointers)
>> Based on GNAT RM, "a Cursor, which must a be a type declared in the
>> container package or visible from it". That's all there is mentioned
>> about the cursor type. Hence, it doesn't have to involve access
>> types.
>> Either I'm right, either I'm wrong, but the RM is unclear.
>
> It is semantically a pointer, an object that directly references
> another object.

And it contains a reference to the container it's a cursor for.