Roger Racine writes:
> At 01:04 PM 11/10/2004 -0800, Prichard, Jayson (Space Technology) wrote:
>>I am writing a subroutine that has one parameter, another subroutine that
>>I want the second subroutine to execute.  Does anyone have any ideas how
>>to do this?
>
> Ada95 or Ada83?  With Ada95 it is quite straightforward (see section 3.10
> of the Reference Manual).  You simply create an access type and use the
> access type  as the parameter.
>
> ...
> type procedure_access is access procedure (. . .);
> procedure my_proc (proc_access : in procedure_access);
> ...
> procedure real_proc (...)  -- same arguments as in the type declaration
> ...
> my_proc (real_proc'access);
>
> For Ada83, it could still be done for all the compilers I used, but was
> implementation dependent.  As I recall, one used the 'address of the
> procedure, and then used a representation clause to call the procedure.
>
> Roger Racine

Another way is to use a generic:

procedure Test is
   generic
      with procedure To_Be_Called (The_Parameter : in Whatever);
   procedure Generic_Proc;

   procedure Generic_Proc is
   begin
      To_Be_Called (The_Parameter => ...);
   end Generic_Proc;

   procedure First (The_Parameter : in Whatever) is separate;

   procedure Second is new Generic_Proc (To_Be_Called => Second);
begin -- Test
   Second;
end Test;

Generics are usually preferred to access-to-subprograms because they
are safer since no null access value can ever exist.

--
Ludovic Brenta.