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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Alternatives to Unrestricted_Access Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 09:27:01 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <5294b37f-57b1-4b8c-bd84-5dff3a0e7eac@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: MyFhHs417jM9AgzRpXn7yg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50895 Date: 2018-03-08T09:27:01+01:00 List-Id: On 07/03/2018 23:29, Jere wrote: > On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 3:38:13 PM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> On 2018-03-07 21:11, Jere wrote: >>> Since the Container >>> implementation is unknown in the generic, I wasn't able to get a version >>> of the Rosen technique to work as an alternative (same constant vs >>> variable access problem). >> >> I am not sure I understand the problem. Why don't you pass a function >> Self along with the container type: >> >> generic >> type Container is tagged whatever; >> function Self (C : Container'Class) >> return not null access Container'Class; >> package Iterative_Mess is > > Because the package is already in use in other code, so > changing the specification would be a very time consuming > change. You can default Self when not used. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de