Re: Visibility

[pattis@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis)]

In article <1992Dec23.233519.21523@netfs.dnd.ca> BERRYMAN@orca.drep.dnd.ca (DON
 BERRYMAN) writes:
>
>
>I have a quesiton on Visiblity. The following Ada code
>generates the following error.
>
>
>     package datatypes is
>         subtype widget is integer;
>     end datatypes;
>
>     with datatypes;
>     package testvisibility is
>         function widget (a: integer) return datatypes.widget;
>     end testvisibility;
>

The LRM says in 8.3(16) "every declaration with the same designator" is
hidden. And designators are only identifiers or operator symbols. So it looks
like your designator widget, even when declared in another package and
selected, is still hidden.  There are two notes on this, but both involve
generics

Now, can anyone say why this interpretation "is a good thing".

Rich Pattis


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