From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@amsjv.com>
Subject: Re: Joint Strike Fighter
Date: 30 Nov 2001 12:49:03 +0000
Date: 2001-11-30T12:49:03+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7v7ks8bf0g.fsf@galadriel.frlngtn.gecm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9u5q9g$md$1@nh.pace.co.uk
"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:
> This seems to be a very common misconception about Ada that tends to
> come from C/C++ programmers approaching the language for the first
> time. Clearly, many programmers are simply used to having to do
> something explicit to get pass-by-reference and think it won't
> happen unless they make it so. I have encountered this
> misconception often when teaching Ada. I don't know what could be
> done with teaching materials, reference documents or the language
> itself to make it more clear that the compiler will handle this for
> you and won't do something stupid. It just seems to occur over and
> over again and Ada gets a bad name over something that is just being
> misunderstood.
I'm not sure that this particular issue is the right way round (well,
it wasn't for me when I encountered it).
I had a Socket (record) type which needed to be passed by reference
but wasn't; the cure was to make it tagged, which I was less than
happy with. I forget why 'limited' wouldn't do ..
So I _did_ have to do something explicit to get pass-by-reference.
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-29 4:55 Joint Strike Fighter Richard Riehle
2001-10-29 11:11 ` Ian
2001-10-31 6:38 ` Richard Riehle
2001-10-31 13:38 ` David Botton
2001-10-31 16:15 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-31 16:25 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-01 4:44 ` JF Harrison
2001-11-01 14:41 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-03 16:58 ` Richard Riehle
2001-11-03 18:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-05 15:30 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-06 2:07 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-06 16:46 ` Rex Reges
2001-11-06 18:17 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-06 19:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-06 21:19 ` Rex Reges
2001-11-06 23:01 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-08 14:55 ` Rex Reges
[not found] ` <Wa+tfCvHgQXH@eisner.e <3BEA9CED.8C6BF839@reges.org>
2001-11-08 15:43 ` Ian Wild
2001-11-08 22:18 ` Rex Reges
2001-11-22 6:25 ` David Thompson
2001-11-08 16:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-08 13:53 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-11-08 22:15 ` Rex Reges
2001-11-09 12:44 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-11-09 15:41 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-09 15:35 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-10 6:56 ` john flynn
2001-11-04 1:08 ` David Botton
2001-11-05 14:59 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-01 14:55 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-01 21:47 ` P Norby
2001-11-02 17:02 ` P Norby
[not found] ` <003301c163c0$289f8c60$45d82c41@vaio>
2001-11-02 19:54 ` JF Harrison
[not found] ` <002a01c163d8$25bb4440$2702a8c0@WorkGroup>
2001-11-02 20:40 ` JF Harrison
2001-11-01 11:38 ` Ian
2001-11-01 14:51 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-02 9:08 ` John McCabe
2001-11-02 16:16 ` Ian
2001-11-02 17:04 ` John McCabe
2001-11-29 16:48 ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-29 17:12 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-30 12:49 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2001-11-30 14:46 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-30 16:37 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-30 15:03 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-30 16:26 ` Simon Wright
2001-11-30 16:39 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-30 17:08 ` Pat Rogers
2001-11-30 22:53 ` Chad R. Meiners
2001-12-01 8:08 ` Simon Wright
2001-10-29 15:02 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-29 17:55 ` Paul A Storm
2001-11-01 4:46 ` Richard Riehle
2001-11-02 20:03 ` Dirk Craeynest
2001-11-07 3:57 ` Vincent Marciante
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