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From: "Andrew Carroll" <andrew@carroll-tech.net>
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Subject: Modes (was unbounded_string)
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 04:58:53 -0600
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:15:27 +0200
> From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
> Subject: Re: Modes (was unbounded_string)
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> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 02:27:19 -0600, "Andrew Carroll"
> <andrew@carroll-tech.net> wrote:
> 
[snip]
> The rule of thumb is: newer use pointers if there is an alternative.
> So:
[snip]
>Thus another rule: if a pointer, then when possible anonymous:
>    procedure Add (This: access X; Token: Unbounded_String); 
>       -- This will be a primitive subprogram of X
> 
[snip]
> The Ada way is not to create objects you do not need.

Okay, so now we're getting to the information I want to know.
The "rules of thumb" for the "Ada idiom".  Anyone got a list of 
"standardized rules of thumb for the Ada idiom"?