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Subject: Re: function Clock return Time; Time is a number, a string...?
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh+bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
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On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:32 -0800, j.khaldi@oltrelinux.com wrote:
> In "package Ada.Calendar"..
> function Clock return Time; // what is the type of Time here?
> A string? A number? Something else?

No, because...
> "Time" has been declarated "private", this means it is untyped yet;
... this means Time is indeed fully typed, but privately--stay out of
its living room and use the public interface of the type Time
to deal with Time objects.
See Jeffrey Cream's post for an example, and 
http://www.adaic.org/standards/05rm/html/RM-9-6.html
for more details.