Re: Implement Inheritance (Ada83)?

[mab@dst17.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)]

In article <3jp6h3$p2t@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> ucaa2385@iris2.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) writes:
>William Brennan (brennan@panther.warm.inmet.com) wrote:
>: Almost all of the packages I have written over the past 5 years use 
>: private types for data abstraction.  I have regularly seen occurences where
>: some maintainer would come by, figure he/she didn't have immediate
>: enough access to the type and move it into the visible part of the spec, 
>: breaking the encapsulation, of course.  One can hear them muttering under 
>: their breath: "What's this _private_ stuff for anyway, it's only getting in 
>: my way!"
>Most of the "need"s to do this will vanish with the 
>appearance of child packages, imho.

Besides anyone that let such a code change pass a formal inspection should
be shot.  What?  Your not doing formal inspections?  Then your QA group should
be shot.

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Mark Biggar
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