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Subject: Re: grassroots thoughts on access types
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Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my corrected exercices, I can read:
> 
> package P_Token.F is
>    type T_Ptr_Token is access all T_Token'Class;
> end P_Token.F;

As a matter of style this makes me think that
someone seems well versed in using Turbo Pascal and C++.
Trying to transform idioms from said languages into Ada 
won’t help when trying to put the language to good use.
As seen, there will be all kinds of pointer stuff.

To mimic constructors using functions is one such attempt, I think.