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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsgate.cistron.nl!news.cambrium.nl!news.cambrium.nl!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:37:09 +0200 Organization: AdaCL Message-ID: <1171773.zBWdIUSQne@linux1.krischik.com> References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> Reply-To: krischik@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1093533483 00 2477 alLAXnaOCqNngD5 040826 15:18:03 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: ZN++ByZXoeWuQUJ2WU7x972JKVy5XlkF4ylKrwYugJKdCEC2hSJp6l User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3033 Date: 2004-08-26T15:37:09+02:00 List-Id: Dale Stanbrough wrote: > Dave Thompson wrote: > >> > 5. Ada pointers are transparent to member extraction and array >> > indexing. I.e. in Ada "->" and "." are same. >> >> Again you can write a smart pointer to do this if you want, but I >> consider it only a minor convenience. > > I (for one!) don't like this aspect of Ada. I prefer the model > adopted by Pascal or C where you dereference explicitly. Then you should try the new GNAT on gcc 3.4.1 - there is a warning now against implicid dereferencing Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net http://www.ada.krischik.com