Re: Design of cross referring types/classes and proper usage of containers

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Serge Robyns" <serge.robyns@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>And I've a final question based on the advise.
>
>Given static (immutable data) one one hand and dynamic data (changed during 
>the
> execution) on the other hand; stored in various containers.  What is 
> actually the
> best approach? Shall I Storing the full element of objects or references 
> created
> through new T_xyz?

It obviously depends. Surely the first choice is to put the data objects 
directly into the container. That lets the container do all of the storage 
management (especially nice for indefinite types like T'Class); it's far 
more likely to do it correctly than you would. (the chances of a bug in your 
memory management code is much higher than the chances of a bug in a 
container implementation).

I'd only put access types into a container if those access types exist for 
some other reason in your program.

>If I want to use an access variables in the first method, do I need to pass 
>an aliased type?

???

Ada doesn't have aliased types ("aliased" is a property of an object [inc. 
components and parameters]).

                                Randy.