Re: grassroots thoughts on access types

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@TheWorld.com>]

"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:

> I don't use Ada 12 because it's only supported by one compiler, so I
> don't use these forms. But that doesn't answer your question, either.
>
> There are no anonymous access types in your examples of using these
> forms because using them doesn't require writing any. So if I used Ada
> 12 I wouldn't have any real problem with using such forms for constructs
> that already provide them. However, since I won't write any anonymous
> access types, I would not provide the ability to use such forms with
> anything I wrote. As it might be confusing to use these forms with some
> constructs and not with others, my code would probably be easier to read
> if I eschewed such forms.

Understood.  Thanks.

For what it's worth, I found the containers packages to
be almost intolerable to use until the syntactic sugar was
added.  I don't particularly like how one defines types
with such syntactic sugar, but using it is easy.

- Bob