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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Recursive algebraic data types
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:28:32 -0600
Date: 2018-03-06T14:28:32-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p7mtlh$s1r$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e3aea96c-8c5d-4569-abad-0d98e6cfc993@googlegroups.com

<hnptz@yahoo.de> wrote in message 
news:e3aea96c-8c5d-4569-abad-0d98e6cfc993@googlegroups.com...
> Does somebody have a generic package on recursive data types in Ada and is 
> willing to share?

A "recursive data type" is illegal in Ada: a type can never depend on 
itself, directly or indirectly. You have to break this sort of thing with an 
intervening access type, which brings a world of complications in storage 
management.

Perhaps you meant something else???

                                 Randy.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-06 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-06 19:46 Recursive algebraic data types hnptz
2018-03-06 19:58 ` hnptz
2018-03-06 20:45   ` gautier_niouzes
2018-03-07  5:53     ` Niklas Holsti
2018-03-07  8:31       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-06 20:28 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2018-03-06 20:54   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-03-06 21:14   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-06 21:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-03-06 21:54 ` hnptz
2018-03-07  7:58   ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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