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Date: 2012-02-07T22:23:26+00:00
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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).