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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: How do I get this to work??
Date: 1999/01/18
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warwicks@telusplanet.net (Chris Warwick) writes:

> In article <77q5m8$e4o$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
> >The point here is that if you look at any program that
> >uses the keyword ALIASED extensively, then this is almost
> >always an example or importing C style into Ada (see
> >separate thread on importing Pascal into COBOL :-) and is
> >something that should be avoided. Almost always such code
> >can be written to avoid the use of ALIASED, and the result
> >will be improved, better structured code.
> 
> I suppose I could create an active layer (package) on top of the C code and 
> then bury the pointer within the layer... hmmm... is this what you have in 
> mind when you talk about re-structuring the code??

No.