From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,39579ad87542da0e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 X-Received: by 10.58.243.138 with SMTP id wy10mr12819315vec.38.1367665489452; Sat, 04 May 2013 04:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Path: y6ni7356qax.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!nrc-news.nrc.ca!News.Dal.Ca!news.litech.org!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:31:37 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ZXqOjp+NNxswgqXUj66j5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2013-04-30T02:31:37+02:00 List-Id: Le Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:14:15 +0200, Yannick Duch=C3=AAne (Hibou57) = a =C3=A9crit: > As an additional aside but related question, I'm also interested in th= e = > question in the particular context of storage=E2=80=91pools, which use= tagged = > types instead of simple sub=E2=80=91program designated by some attribu= tes or = > operator overloading (I imagine simple sub=E2=80=91programs could have= been an = > option for the `new` operator, just like for the other operators). Same question in the context of `Ada.Finalization`. Similar semantic cou= ld = have been made available without requiring tagged types. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity