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From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: C's trikery semantic opens up backdoor in new Linux kernel
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:44:47 +0100, Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
<ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> wrote:

>Erlo Haugen wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:04:02 +1300
>>Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:09:52 +0100, Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler wrote:
>>> ...
>>> >No. And you? Do you really think that the linux kernel community would
>>> >like the idea of using a *function* to get/set a plain simple integer
>>> >variable? I already hear them scream: "It would be too inefficient.
>>> >Especially in a *kernel*!" ;-)
>>> 
>>> Ada 95 could be enhanced so that specified record fields could be
>>> read-only.
>
>BTW, this is a neat idea. OTOH, for this approach to be practical
>someone *must* have write access.

1. Not always. We already have constant "record" fields in Ada. They
are called discriminants.

2. Constructor

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