Re: Ada for a programming newb.

[Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:51:23 GMT, "Frank J. Lhota"
<NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote:

>"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
>news:4zuab.5439$U6.3722@nwrdny03.gnilink.net...
>
>> When I go to the barber, the result is not a new copy of me with
>> shorter hair. It's the same old me witha side-effect applied.
>
>Actually, the algorithm used by your barber is as follows (in C++)
>
>    CPerson *NewRosen = new CPerson( *HymanRosen );

Yep, each barber has a storage pool in his cellar with a giant
refrigerator where it keeps human bodies to allocate ...

>    NewRosen->CutHair( /* To */ desiredLength );
>
>    delete HymanRosen;

Mmm, I think it is:

HymanRosen->Send (&HannibalLector);

Cutting hairs (at least here in Germany) could not repay the costs of
fresh flesh, so he definitely sells the rests to Hannibal! (:-))

>    HymanRosen = NewRosen;
>
>The reason you never noticed this before is due to the quality of the copy
>method ;)

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Dmitry Kazakov
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