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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Safety of the Booch Ada 95 Components
Date: 1999/12/17
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Mats Weber <matsw@mail.com> writes:

> Simon Wright wrote:
> 
> > I'm going to do a deep copy.
> > 
> > I have an object containing a pointer to the value that has been
> > assigned, so I need to make the deep copy and then put a pointer to
> > the copy in the current object.
> > 
> > If that fails, presumably because of memory exhaustion, I can
[...]
> (5) raise or propagate and exception. I think this is the only right
> thing to do. Being tagged, controlled types are passed by reference, so
> you can also make sure the target of the assignement has a null pointer.

I forgot to say that I was going to do that anyway! thanks for the
note ..