From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Introductory Ada Programming Book
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 17:52:22 -0600
Date: 2017-01-05T17:52:22-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <o4mm7m$iot$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ed5bslF2432U1@mid.individual.net
"Niklas Holsti" <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote in message
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> On 17-01-04 15:44 , raph.amiard@gmail.com wrote:
...
>>> Oddly, variables are not initialised by default
>>> (Personal opinion: default initialization is a huge mistake)
>>
>> Ok but, besides the "oddly" qualifier, his statement is correct, right ?
>
> Except for variables of an access type, or (but perhaps this is not "by
> default" in his view) of a record type where the components are given
> initial default values.
And any type has that aspect Default_Value or Default_Component_Value
specified (in Ada 2012). Effectively, you can program with all objects
default initialized if you want that bad enough (although it isn't possible
with some predefined types, like String).
Randy.
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-31 13:18 Introductory Ada Programming Book Andrew Shvets
2016-12-31 14:26 ` Lucretia
2016-12-31 15:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-12-31 17:14 ` Andrew Shvets
2016-12-31 14:28 ` Lucretia
2016-12-31 14:34 ` Lucretia
2016-12-31 17:22 ` Andrew Shvets
2016-12-31 17:59 ` Gour
2017-01-02 15:56 ` Andrew Shvets
2017-01-02 16:32 ` Gour
2017-01-03 15:31 ` Patrick Noffke
2017-01-03 22:18 ` Andrew Shvets
2017-01-04 1:14 ` Paul Rubin
2017-01-04 3:07 ` Andrew Shvets
2017-01-04 6:46 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-01-04 9:25 ` raph.amiard
2017-01-04 12:40 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-01-04 12:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-01-04 13:45 ` raph.amiard
2017-01-04 14:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-01-04 15:15 ` Simon Wright
2017-01-10 10:02 ` raph.amiard
2017-01-04 15:18 ` Shark8
2017-01-04 21:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-01-05 3:04 ` Shark8
2017-01-05 7:51 ` G.B.
2017-01-04 13:44 ` raph.amiard
2017-01-04 22:08 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-01-04 22:39 ` Niklas Holsti
2017-01-05 0:38 ` G.B.
2017-01-05 23:52 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2017-01-05 6:36 ` J-P. Rosen
2017-01-05 8:38 ` Simon Wright
2017-01-10 10:13 ` raph.amiard
2017-01-09 22:01 ` Robert Eachus
2017-01-04 23:42 ` Andrew Shvets
2017-01-05 0:47 ` G.B.
2017-01-05 19:01 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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