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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Convert an access to constant to access to variable
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 18:21:16 -0500
Date: 2017-08-07T18:21:16-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <omasld$s8g$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: om35c6$1jfb$1@gioia.aioe.org

"Victor Porton" <porton@narod.ru> wrote in message 
news:om35c6$1jfb$1@gioia.aioe.org...
...
> Hard to believe that there is no any way in Ada2012 to convert an access 
> to
> constant to an access to variable. I'm sure many people wanted this. How
> such a feature may be missing?!

You're the first person that has ever expressed such a need, to my 
knowledge. So I'm pretty certain that the number of people needing this is 
not "many".

This situation has never happened to me personally. That could be because 
I've almost never written an access-to-constant (and when I have, it usually 
didn't work and I ended up changing it).

In any case, this will be a tough sell to the ARG, since it is clearly 
adding more ways to write erroneous programs. That's considered the wrong 
direction for a language focused on safety.

                                     Randy.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-07 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-04 22:17 Convert an access to constant to access to variable Victor Porton
2017-08-05  0:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-08-05  1:00   ` Victor Porton
2017-08-07 23:21     ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2017-08-05  1:37 ` Victor Porton
2017-08-05 17:27 ` Stephen Leake
2017-08-05 17:41   ` Victor Porton
2017-08-07 23:16     ` Randy Brukardt
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