From: cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cmu.edu!progers@ucbvax.Berke ley.EDU (Pat Rogers)
Subject: Re: Generic Pointer Type
Date: 8 Sep 93 15:51:51 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Sep8.115151.903@sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In article <7SEP199313180978@cl2.cl.uh.edu> SWEN1FBE@cl.uh.edu writes:
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>> [deletia]
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>Part of the philosophy behind Ada is the idea that untypeid pointers are
>a bad idea. (however, it does support addressing some.)
>
>Even more important: conversion between two access types goes outside
>the standard for ada--ie, it requires unchecked_conversion. Any suggestions
It is difficult to understand how using Unchecked_Conversion "goes outside
the standard for Ada" when the standard defines Unchecked_Conversion...
Granted that unchecked programming is not something to do everywhere. But
this idea that Unchecked_Conversion and Unchecked_Deallocation are somehow
responsible for the invocation of demons is rather unrealistic. They
have their uses. Hide them and get on with it.
pat rogers
sbs engineering
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