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: 103376,4e5770c49b971630 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.mv.net!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: High-Integrity OO and controlled types Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 12:53:13 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <679e3217-98dd-43c1-86f6-2038a029c3ea@b19g2000yqg.googlegroups.com> <94f3a272-d071-4a74-bfbd-8f2b4c2347cf@m10g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <1iafnr1rbueaw.1bo3gcx227hx7.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1304441593 22692 192.74.137.71 (3 May 2011 16:53:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 16:53:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WLmQcoRBej8yWeAZufelfUcJcKE= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:20117 Date: 2011-05-03T12:53:13-04:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > There are three meaning of being controlled: > > 1. Ada 83 used it to refer memory allocation (pragma Controlled) > 2. Since Ada 95 it is both > 2.a. An ability to influence initialization and finalization > 2.b. An ability to have a [non-generic] class I am unaware of 2.b. I know there are two meanings: 1 and 2.a. > Yes, things need to be sorted out. Shrug. Nobody uses pragma Controlled, so I don't see a huge problem with the terminology. - Bob