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-Thread: 103376,901038687c38f61c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!14bb18d8!not-for-mail Sender: mheaney@MHEANEYX200 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Idiom for a class and an object in Ada References: From: Matthew Heaney Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:46:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.185.133.124 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1098323199 64.185.133.124 (Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:46:39 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:46:39 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5556 Date: 2004-10-21T01:46:39+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter writes: > Matthew Heaney wrote: > > > For reasons I can't fathom, many Ada95 developers still have a very > > Ada83 mindset. > > That's because Ada 83 was a very good language, and the idioms that were > good for it are still good. Ancient history. > And this is why C++ is never a good guide to how to do things in > Ada. The pointer may well be needed in C++; it's not needed in Ada. I don't understand this comment. How else do you dynamically create instances of T?