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From: "Francesco Bochicchio" <bockman@virgilio.it>
Subject: Re: renames and access
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 19:02:23 +0000, Robert A Duff wrote:

> 
>> If this turns impossible, what would be an equivalent solution? At the
>> moment, my bet is to turn the renames into access. Any better idea?
> 
> Turning into access would work, but then you have to modify all the
> clients.

Right.

>  But how about this:
> 
>     function A return Integer is
>     begin
>         return REC_PTR.A;
>     end A;
> 
> ?
>

I thought of that:

1. It adds a function call overhead for each time one of the variables is
   accessed ( and it happens a lot )
2. It only solves variable reading. I don't see any equivalent way to
assign values to the variables.


Thanks anyway.

Ciao
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FB