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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:07:29 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 06:30:32 -0700, EGarrulo wrote:

> On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 1:36:56 PM UTC+2, Brian Drummond wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:23:25 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> 
>> > On 30.07.15 10:03, EGarrulo wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Ada doesn't offer any facility for automatic resource management,
>> > Is this about GC only?
>> No, since he widens the discussion beyond just memory as a resource, I
>> suspect he means controlled types.
> 
> Yes, I mean controlled types.  As far as I can tell, right now
> controlled types are useful for resources that are local to a routine,
> but they don't scale well for shared resources because of insufficient
> support from the language.  I know that non-intrusive shared pointers
> have been implemented in Ada (just a couple of months ago, though, but
> late is better than never), but they feel cumbersome and error-prone to
> use.

I suspect what's missing isn't so much anything in controlled types 
themselves, but something like an Ada Gems worked example showing their 
use in a non-trivial example. At least I can't point at a good example 
offhand.

-- Brian