From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Niklas Holsti Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Unchecked_Deallocation with tagged types Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:10:40 +0300 Organization: Tidorum Ltd Message-ID: References: <607b56f8$0$3721$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <07863309-4541-4497-8cec-d88179e634bdn@googlegroups.com> <3d6e49b6-f195-4dc2-bf4b-795f18f2da9dn@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net nSglsIg1uxGntIh9QkfbPALCl0kjGCxda+9LvZoRf0y7XWikCH Cancel-Lock: sha1:mgT25tCOICnRmPceKoMahjXMeMc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:61878 List-Id: On 2021-04-20 23:32, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: > On 4/20/21 8:53 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote: >> >> 'Free makes more sense in a new language (an Ada follow-on). > > Right. I don't think it would be a good idea to add it to Ada. > > But I think a new language should not have pointers at all. > > No more radical than not having arrays. It seems to me that a language without arrays and pointers would be very difficult to use in an embedded, real-time, close-to-HW context. So we would lose the nice wide-spectrum nature of Ada.