From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Objects and the Stack?
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:22:44 +0000
Date: 2004-12-20T16:22:44+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.204.1103559792.10401.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32o755F3p3ddbU1@individual.net>
> ... apparently my development activities must center on those few areas,
> since I'm constantly using access types due to the unknowable-in-advance
> quantities and structural relationships of the data that I'm dealing with.
You should attend a "No Pointers, Great Programs" tutorial :-)
The whole problem with pointers is that languages (incorrectly) mix
_allocation_ and _reference_ in them. Every complex design has
referential needs (names). A pointerless approach tries to insolate that
from the allocation troubles.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-20 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-16 22:27 Objects and the Stack? Freejack
2004-12-16 23:13 ` Nick Roberts
2004-12-20 14:50 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-12-20 16:22 ` Marius Amado Alves [this message]
2004-12-20 18:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-12-17 0:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-12-17 8:45 ` Freejack
2004-12-17 11:11 ` Martin Dowie
2004-12-17 11:46 ` Nick Roberts
2004-12-17 19:52 ` Freejack
2004-12-18 4:02 ` Nick Roberts
2004-12-27 4:34 ` Dave Thompson
2004-12-18 19:41 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-12-18 20:50 ` Freejack
2004-12-18 21:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-12-27 4:34 ` Dave Thompson
2004-12-18 0:12 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-12-18 0:43 ` Jeffrey Carter
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