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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham 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!news.moat.net!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:06:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.217.18.112 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1093507584 138.217.18.112 (Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:06:24 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:06:24 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3013 Date: 2004-08-26T08:06:24+00:00 List-Id: 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. Dale -- dstanbro@spam.o.matic.bigpond.net.au