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Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
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slatyb@yahoo.com (K) writes:

> This is pretty easy with the C++ pointer-to-member construct, but Ada
> lacks that construct so you have to instead wrap the data members with
> a function so you can store an access-to-function.  But it's worse,
> since you will need two functions, one to read the datum and one to
> set it.

You're still confused:

   function A (O : access T) return Integer_Access;  --Ada95

   O : aliased T;
   N : Integer;

begin

   A (O'Access).all := 42;
   N := A (O'Access).all;

end;