From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Is this actually possible?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:34:12 +0100
Date: 2019-12-11T22:34:12+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qsrncj$u95$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a3717ecc-6ce1-4f8b-a026-7355757bc78f@googlegroups.com
On 2019-12-11 22:12, Lucretia wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 19:58:54 UTC, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> If you need objects that could be packed into C arrays use a variant
>> record with the choice discriminant having a default.
>
> But in my cases, a variant cannot be used.
Why? You must know all variants in order to compute the array element
size. In Ada you cannot have it either:
type Not_an_Array is array (Positive range <>) of T'Class;
This is illegal.
Are you sure you want an array of objects, rather than an array of
pointers to objects?
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-11 16:43 Is this actually possible? Lucretia
2019-12-11 17:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-11 17:54 ` Lucretia
2019-12-11 19:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-12-11 19:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-11 21:12 ` Lucretia
2019-12-11 21:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2019-12-12 2:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-12-12 9:26 ` Niklas Holsti
2020-04-08 16:10 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-12-12 10:17 ` Lucretia
2019-12-12 14:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-12 15:14 ` Lucretia
2019-12-12 15:15 ` Lucretia
2019-12-12 18:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-12 18:30 ` Lucretia
2019-12-12 19:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-12 20:54 ` Lucretia
2019-12-12 21:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-12-13 11:11 ` Lucretia
2019-12-11 19:59 ` Randy Brukardt
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