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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7f2ce8bda9cae4ab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s01.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Freejack Subject: Re: "Must instantiate controlled types at library level." Why? User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <13392802.3gDeTK7ybb@linux1.krischik.com> <2780491.NPbR8AFya6@linux1.krischik.com> <11924003.IfRfnULeIG@linux1.krischik.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.11.11.243 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s01 1084488847 24.11.11.243 (Thu, 13 May 2004 22:54:07 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:54:07 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:54:07 GMT Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:567 Date: 2004-05-13T22:54:07+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 13 May 2004 13:18:11 +0200, Martin Krischik wrote: > I almost never use pointers in Ada since I can pass 'Class types around as I > like. > Huh? > Martin Alright. I'm not a guru by any stretch of the imagination. But I do get around Ada code quite proficiently. This idea of substituting Classes for pointers is a bit fuzzy to me. I mean, a pointer is an address. Maybe I don't understand Ada Classes as well as I thought. Classes are addresses too? Could you elaborate? Freejack