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Subject: Re: Basic Explaination of OO in Ada
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On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 08:24 -0700, richard.charts@gmail.com wrote:


> Is the correct way to think in Ada, that in a package, there is some
> record "object" and also a number of subprograms that can interact
> with/on that record?

Yes, this is the "normal" approach.


Package Module is

   type T is tagged private;

   procedure put(x: in out T; item: SOME_TYPE);

   function get(x: T) return SOME_TYPE;

private

  type T is tagged record
    ... implementation details ...
  end record;

end Module;