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Date: 25 Sep 92 17:36:27 GMT
From: sampson@cod.nosc.mil  (Charles H. Sampson)
Subject: Re: Using Global Variables
Message-ID: <1992Sep25.173627.27644@nosc.mil>
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In article <92268.46318.LJ10891@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> LJ10891@LMSC5.IS.LM
SC.LOCKHEED.COM (Trey Haddad) writes:
>------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
>>cope, of visibility.  Ada gives perfectly adequate means for accessing
>>shared memory without requiring that the names of the data in the shared mem-
>>ory be global (the address clause).  {surrounding text deleted}
>
>   Not to mention just declaring a package GLOBAL, containing nothing but
>shared variables, and 'withing' said package to all units which require
>access to these 'global' variables.  :-)

     With the result that anybody who needs to access anything in shared
memory now has full access to everything in shared memory.  Ah, informa-
tion hiding, what has happened to you?

				Charlie