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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: little precision about anonymous access types
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"Mehdi Saada" <00120260a@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>Otherwise it would be nothing short of insanely crazy batshit.

The best description of anonymous accesss types I've read in a while. ;-)

The intent is that you use named access types to allocate/deallocate memory, 
and just use anonymous types to store them for short periods (i.e. 
parameters, stand-alone objects). But then why not just use the named types 
everywhere?

Anonymous access types started out as a(n unnecessary) hack to allow 
dispatching on access types, and grew into something monsterous that really 
doesn't help for any of the needs that they were touted for. The worst big 
mistake that we made with Ada post-95 was expanding the use of these 
things - lots of complication, little value.

                           Randy.