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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 11:26:36 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:53:26 -0700, EGarrulo wrote:

> I am not thinking in C++ terms.  I am thinking in terms of patterns that
> I know for managing resources.  So far, I only know the "shared/weak
> pointer" idiom.  If Ada offers something else, besides manual
> reclamation, I am eager to learn about it.

To help us all get on the same page, can you link to a good description 
(presumably, not in C++ terms) of what you mean by the "shared/weak 
pointer idiom"? Or name the appropriate Design Pattern(s)?

I have sometimes felt it would be useful to translate some of the 
standard programming texts into Ada - some of the GoF "Design Patterns" 
turn out to be utterly trivial in Ada; some others have been covered ad-
hoc in the "Gems" series, in other cases I'm not clear which of several 
approaches would be most appropriate.

-- Brian