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 Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: put of access type References: <4a8ce6a0$1@news.post.ch> From: Stephen Leake Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:18:52 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FvGxRQHMfvpvnOr9Fn4hDJQ+EBc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 9e3be4a8e5855e197caa729816 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6962 Date: 2009-08-21T04:18:52-04:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff writes: > Martin Krischik writes: > >> Actualy he want's to learn - so he needs a memory dump. I remember that >> some access types have attached infos - anonymous access used as a >> function parameters spring to mind. If you just print the referenced >> address then the additional info is lost. Not so good if you want to >> learn Ada's internals. > > Right, but the OP wants to learn Ada, as far as can tell. I don't think > the best way to do that is to focus on "internals". That depends on your learning style. I understood tagged types and dispatching much better after I learned about one possible implementation. The same goes for access types for unconstrained arrays; they just don't make sense if you don't know about the dope. -- -- Stephe