From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
Subject: Re: OO in Ada
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:10:27 -0400
Date: 2002-10-07T10:10:27-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uq35eldljbpcc@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JVrn9.40015$FO4.9224@sccrnsc03
"SteveD" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:JVrn9.40015$FO4.9224@sccrnsc03...
>
> In C++ there is a hidden "this" pointer quietly hiding in the background
> that you must be very much aware of (if you're doing any serious
> programming). In Ada this is an explicit variable passed into the
> procedure.
This is also true in Ada, wrt passing unconstrained arrays:
procedure Op (S : String) is
You're actually passing a descriptor on the stack, which contains info about
the string's length and index range. So here there is "hidden" information
being passed too, not unlike an implicit this-ptr in C++.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-07 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-04 2:14 OO in Ada Rick Duley
2002-10-04 2:55 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-04 17:35 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-10-05 0:20 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-05 23:38 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-10-05 15:25 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-06 21:37 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-10-06 2:18 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-10-06 3:00 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-08 21:08 ` Gisle Sælensminde
2002-10-04 3:37 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-10-04 5:32 ` Simon Wright
2002-10-04 6:01 ` tmoran
2002-10-04 15:05 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-05 2:14 ` SteveD
2002-10-05 8:54 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-07 14:10 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
2002-10-07 19:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-08 21:18 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-10-08 9:53 ` John McCabe
2002-10-08 15:37 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-08 16:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-10-08 17:48 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-08 17:16 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-10-08 17:58 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-09 16:59 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-10-08 10:21 ` Preben Randhol
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1998-05-15 0:00 Gisle S{lensminde
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