From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: simple question?! (choice of the name "access type")
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:58:35 GMT
Date: 2003-06-12T08:58:35+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yecd6hjekmt.fsf@king.cts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccof1477gq.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
[...]
> But Ada is descended from Pascal, and you can't do pointer arithmetic in
> Pascal, either. Yet Pascal calls them "pointers".
>
> I think it was silly and obfuscatory for Ada to call them "access
> types".
[...]
I agree. I remember the first time I read the Ada Reference Manual
(actually it was a copy of the 1979 preliminary manual from SIGPLAN
Notices). I had a lot of trouble figuring out what the section on
access types was talking about until I realized they were essentially
the same thing as pointers.
--
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-11 6:59 simple question?! prashna
2003-06-11 11:08 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-06-11 11:31 ` simple question?! (choice of the name "access type") Larry Kilgallen
2003-06-11 19:13 ` Robert A Duff
2003-06-11 20:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-06-12 8:58 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
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