From: Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com>
Subject: Re: limited/non-limited in Ada95
Date: 1997/10/17
Date: 1997-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ufhgaghueo.fsf@synquiry.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mheaney-ya023680001610972221540001@news.ni.net
mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) writes:
> What "important capabilities" do limited types have? That they're passed
> by reference? You get that for free anyway for tagged types, even if the
> tagged type is non-limited.
Well, they are _not_ necessarily passed by reference. That is part of
what Henry Baker is (correctly) whinging about.
The most important part is that they can't be implicitly aliased -
especially via assignment.
/Jon
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-13 0:00 limited/non-limited in Ada95 Tom Moran
1997-10-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-17 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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