From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Custom Storage Pool questions
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 19:45:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sib9va$nqa$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: si9gnb$926$1@gioia.aioe.org
User calls on Initialize and Finalize have no special meaning; they're
igorned for the purposes of language-defined finalization. The fact that
they're normal routines and can be called by someone else means that some
defensive programming is needed. That all happened because of the "scope
reduction" of Ada 9x; the dedicated creation/finalization mechanism got
dumped. Finalization was too important to lose completely, so Tucker cooked
up the current much simpler mechanism in order to avoid the objections. It's
not ideal for that reason -- but Finalize would still have been a normal
subprogram that anyone could call (what else could it have been -- the
mechanism of stream attributes could have been used instead). I don't think
there is a way that one could have prevented user-defined calls to these
routines (even if they had a special name, you still could have renamed an
existing subprogram to the special name).
Randy.
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
news:si9gnb$926$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> On 2021-09-20 10:08, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>> On 2021-09-20 10:35, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
>>> No. You can have them accessible over other access types with wider
>>> scopes:
>>>
>>> Collection_Pointer := new X;
>>> Global_Pointer := Collection_Pointer.all'Unchecked_Access;
>>>
>> So, unchecked programming, as I said.
>
> Right, working with pools is all that thing. Maybe "new" should be named
> "unchecked_new" (:-))
>
> Finalize and Initialize certainly should have been Unchecked_Finalize and
> Unchecked_Initialize as they are not enforced. You can override the
> parent's Initialize and never call it. It is a plain primitive operations
> anybody can call any time any place. You can even call it before the
> object is fully initialized!
>
> So, why bother with objects the user manually allocates (and forgets to
> free)?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-13 0:53 Custom Storage Pool questions Jere
2021-09-13 5:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-14 1:04 ` Jere
2021-09-21 0:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-18 11:32 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-20 0:31 ` Jere
2021-09-20 6:34 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-09-20 6:48 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-09-20 7:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-20 16:59 ` Shark8
2021-09-21 0:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-21 23:08 ` Jere
2021-09-28 4:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-02 23:19 ` Jere
2021-10-03 8:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-14 1:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-13 11:12 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-14 0:48 ` Jere
2021-09-14 6:08 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-15 0:39 ` Jere
2021-09-15 7:01 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-16 23:32 ` Jere
2021-09-20 23:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-21 22:40 ` Jere
2021-09-14 6:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-14 6:42 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-14 7:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-20 23:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-15 0:21 ` Jere
2021-09-15 6:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-20 23:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-14 10:54 ` Egil H H
2021-09-15 0:11 ` Jere
2021-09-15 16:43 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-15 17:03 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-15 19:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-15 20:40 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-16 7:12 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-09-16 23:21 ` Jere
2021-09-17 7:08 ` Emmanuel Briot
2021-09-17 7:18 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-17 13:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-17 19:46 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-17 20:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-17 21:17 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-09-18 7:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-18 9:03 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-09-18 10:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-18 15:59 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-09-18 16:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-19 10:36 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-09-19 11:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-20 7:05 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-09-20 7:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-20 8:08 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-09-20 8:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-21 0:45 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2021-09-21 0:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-21 0:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-21 0:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-21 6:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-28 4:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-28 7:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-21 0:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-21 6:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-28 4:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-28 6:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-28 7:52 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-28 8:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-28 22:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-29 7:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-29 14:41 ` Shark8
2021-09-29 15:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-30 0:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-30 8:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-01 0:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-01 8:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-02 9:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-02 10:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-03 4:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-03 8:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-14 1:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-14 3:12 ` philip...@gmail.com
2021-10-14 7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-15 0:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-15 8:08 ` Stephen Leake
2021-10-15 8:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-15 22:22 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-15 8:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-15 22:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-16 9:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-16 14:32 ` Simon Wright
2021-10-16 15:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-18 14:23 ` Shark8
2021-09-21 0:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-21 0:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-16 8:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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