Re: Pointers explained?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:36:02 -0700, Adam Beneschan wrote:

> Those programmers would see the error
> message that says 'Access is illegal because of the accessibility
> rules, and figure they can solve the problem simply by changing it to
> 'Unchecked_Access".  Unfortunately, I've seen that sort of Ada code---
> quite frustrating.

I disagree. Unchecked_Access is required too often to be discarded as just
a problem of lazy programmers. Sometimes the rules are too strict,
sometimes pointers are forced where objects should be used instead (like in
function parameters or in discriminants). To me it is an indicator of some
language design problems.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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