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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Dereferencing and style guides
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:20:47 -0400
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Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> On 30.09.13 14:51, Robert A Duff wrote:
>> However, the ".all" syntax is just plain weird.  "All what?"  It makes
>> no sense to me.
>
> I take it you are deliberately being forgetful? ;-)
>
> All what? All [components] of the referenced object, of course.

Still makes no sense to me.  X.all does not denote "all the components
of X".  It denotes the object that X designates.  Saying, "Yeah it
denotes ALL of that object" seems silly.  Every name that denotes ANY
object denotes all of it.

And what if X.all is an Integer, so it has no components.

For an access-to-array, should it be X(all)?

No, sorry, I think the ".all" syntax is just plain weird.

> In true Ada, an plain old object is the only kind of entity that
> should ever need access through an access value!

Not sure what you mean.

- Bob