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,ec21c3c7cdc7ff3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: private types Date: 26 Mar 2006 13:28:42 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <1142279908.327131.230200@j52g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <2fadnRu3VdilmrvZRVn-vQ@rcn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1143397722 31117 192.74.137.71 (26 Mar 2006 18:28:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:28:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3635 Date: 2006-03-26T13:28:42-05:00 List-Id: "Frank J. Lhota" writes: > "Robert A Duff" wrote in message > news:wccr74q19up.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com... > >>... I rarely use access types, > > > > So you rarely create trees, linked list, etc? > > Not necessarily; One could create these entities using a container library > such as the Booch components or the 2005 Ada Containers. Of course, such > libraries will use acess types in their implementation, but the end user > does not have to handle access values directly. Good point. At least for the "linked lists, etc" part. But for trees and symbol tables and the like, as in a compiler, those container libraries are no help. - Bob