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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Preventing Unchecked_Deallocation?
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:23:26 +0000
Date: 2012-02-07T22:23:26+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m262fi5llt.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcczkcu2uxh.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com

Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> In Ada, you need pointers if you want to create linked heap-allocated
> data structures.  In the kinds of program I write, that happens often.
> You also need pointers if you want to implement size-changing objects.
> Not for much else.

In order to represent a UML model, I needed limited objects to represent
the elements in the model (instances of Class, DataType, Association,
Operation, Parameter etc) and I wanted to store them in Maps keyed by
name. I didn't see any choice but to use maps of (name -> access
element'class).



  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-07 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-02 23:41 Preventing Unchecked_Deallocation? Simon Belmont
2012-02-04 14:40 ` AdaMagica
2012-02-05 16:42   ` Simon Belmont
2012-02-06 12:52     ` Julian Leyh
2012-02-06 16:05       ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-06 16:21     ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-06 18:34       ` AdaMagica
2012-02-07  0:14       ` Simon Belmont
2012-02-07  2:19         ` Shark8
2012-02-07 16:39           ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-07 11:42         ` Gautier write-only
2012-02-07 21:11           ` Simon Belmont
2012-02-07 21:30             ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-07 22:23               ` Simon Wright [this message]
2012-02-07 23:07                 ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-08  8:43                   ` Simon Wright
2012-02-08 15:06                     ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-09  2:22                     ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-09  7:28                       ` Simon Wright
2012-02-07 23:06               ` Alan Copeland
2012-02-07 23:10                 ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-09  2:49         ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-09  3:39           ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-09 15:47             ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-09 19:16               ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-09  7:37           ` Simon Wright
2012-02-10  1:08             ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-10  7:35               ` Simon Wright
2012-02-07  6:26     ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-08  8:49       ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-02-08 23:40         ` BrianG
2012-02-09  2:57         ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-09  7:13           ` Pascal Obry
2012-02-10  1:12             ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-09  8:08           ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-02-10  1:18             ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-07 16:27     ` Robert A Duff
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