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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Protected types and visibility of their internals
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 08:12:53 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 8, 10:04 pm, christoph.gr...@eurocopter.com wrote:
> If you want the protected type to be visible, alas there is no other
> place to declare this type than in the visible part of the package.
> This is inconvenient. The rationale for this?
>
> You can however hide the PO in the body and export the operations via
> renaming.

Except that if he's trying to declare a protected *type*, that
probably means he wants to declare more than one protected object of
that type, so renaming isn't going to work.  You'll probably have to
use a wrapper or follow Georg's suggestion.

                              -- Adam