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From: Vincent Marciante <vincent.marciante@l3harris.com>
Subject: Re: Unchecked_Deallocation with tagged types
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:34:30 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <827fce15-8277-4ec8-a627-01158b42a191n@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5n2nl$6ee$1@dont-email.me>

On Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 1:24:08 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 4/20/21 5:57 PM, Stephen Leake wrote: 
> > "Jeffrey R. Carter" wrote: 
> > 
> >> package Lists is 
> >> type Handle is tagged limited private; 
> >> 
> >> procedure Clear (List : in out Handle); 
> >> 
> >> and then use 
> >> 
> >> List : Lists.Handle; 
> >> 
> >> List.Clear; 
> > 
> > Just to provide an alternative, I like: 
> > 
> > package Lists is 
> > type List is tagged limited private; 
> > 
> > procedure Clear (List : in out Lists.List); 
> > 
> > and then use 
> > 
> > List : Lists.List; 
> > 
> > List.Clear;
> Lists.List is a bit repetitive. Are you sure you don't want 
> Lists.Listy_List_Listing?
> > that saves you having to think up a bogus name for the 'list' type.
> I think of private types as allowing you to manipulate their abstraction without 
> know how it's implemented, much as the handle on a suitcase allows you to 
> manipulate its contents without knowing what's in there. So Handle seems an 
> appropriate name. 
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Carter 
> "I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were 
> here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic 
> frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen 
> in this day and age." 
> Blazing Saddles 
> 88

As people might remember from long ago, I'm in the

    Lists.List

 camp.

 (Wouldn't some "C" people argue for using the same name but
different capitalization to disambiguate ?:-)

[Vin runs away]

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-20 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-17 21:45 Unchecked_Deallocation with tagged types DrPi
2021-04-17 22:29 ` Rod Kay
2021-04-17 22:36   ` Rod Kay
2021-04-18  9:06     ` DrPi
2021-04-18  9:07     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-04-18  8:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-04-18  8:46   ` Gautier write-only address
2021-04-18  9:09     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-04-18 10:13       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-04-16  3:44         ` Thomas
2022-04-16  8:09           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-04-18 10:20       ` J-P. Rosen
2021-04-18 10:34         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-04-18 15:14           ` J-P. Rosen
2021-04-18 15:23             ` Gautier write-only address
2021-04-18 15:53               ` J-P. Rosen
2021-04-18 16:08                 ` Gautier write-only address
2022-04-16  5:00                   ` Thomas
2021-04-20 18:53               ` Randy Brukardt
2021-04-20 19:35                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-04-18  5:51                   ` Thomas
2022-04-18  6:26                     ` Niklas Holsti
2021-04-20 20:32                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-04-20 21:10                   ` Niklas Holsti
2021-04-21  8:35                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-04-21 10:11                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-04-24  0:49                     ` Randy Brukardt
2022-04-18  1:51                       ` Thomas
2021-04-18 16:08         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-04-18  9:13   ` DrPi
2021-04-18 10:01     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-04-18 10:42       ` DrPi
2021-04-18 16:48     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-04-20 15:57       ` Stephen Leake
2021-04-20 17:24         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-04-20 17:34           ` Vincent Marciante [this message]
2021-04-20 20:56             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-04-21 10:21               ` Vincent Marciante
2021-04-21 10:28                 ` Vincent Marciante
2021-04-21 12:13                 ` Simon Wright
2021-04-21 13:28                 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-04-22 10:21                   ` Vincent Marciante
2021-04-21 13:42                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-04-24  1:04                 ` Randy Brukardt
2022-04-12 23:25                   ` use clauses Thomas
2022-04-13  1:05                     ` Randy Brukardt
2022-04-14  2:51                       ` 25.BX944
2022-04-14  6:49                         ` Emmanuel Briot
2022-04-15  5:33                         ` Doctor Who
2022-04-19  3:53                       ` Thomas
2022-04-19  5:59                         ` Randy Brukardt
2021-04-22  8:55           ` Unchecked_Deallocation with tagged types Stephen Leake
2021-04-22 11:16             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-04-22 15:49               ` Vincent Marciante
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1996-11-22  0:00 Paul Burnim
1996-11-23  0:00 ` Simon Wright
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