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From: Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com>
Subject: Re: limited/non-limited in Ada95
Date: 1997/10/17
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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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