Re: Idiom for a class and an object in Ada

[Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:46:39 GMT, Matthew Heaney wrote:
> 
> > I don't understand this comment.  How else do you dynamically create
> > instances of T?
> 
> Why should they be created dynamically (heap)? Heap vs. stack is a
> matter of object's scope. It should have little or no impact on the
> design of the type. If it has then probably because of language
> deficiency, as in C++, or, yes, in Ada where there was no way to
> initialize limited objects. That will be corrected soon, I hope.


My point was that there is *no* difference between Ada95 and C++ here.
My reasons for writing the code as I did (that is, writing a factory
function that returns a pointer) had nothing to do with language.



> For Marin's case the objects are not dynamic. So if read-only objects
> would suffice, one can just use functions returning limited objects:

Finally, someone else sees the light...