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From: Mark A Biggar <mark.a.biggar@lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues
Date: 1998/10/29
Date: 1998-10-29T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36389225.AD9E5C70@lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dale-2910981230010001@dale.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au

Dale Stanbrough wrote:
 
>    package Calendar;
>    package Calendar.Monotonic;
>    package Calendar.Monotonic.Gregorian
>    package Calendar.Monotonic.Julian;
> 
> etc.
> Does making these children of (Ada.)Calendar aren't we locking it into
> a framework where people can't extend the hierachy because "only compiler
> developers are allowed to extend the Ada hierachy"? (yes, i know you can
> do this with Gnat, but I think we need a solution for all compilers).

Read the LRM carefully, it only disallows direct childern of package Ada,
grandchildern and so on ARE allowed.  So, all the above packages are legal
and can be written and supplied by anyone.  

--
Mark Biggar
mark.a.biggar@lmco.com




  reply	other threads:[~1998-10-29  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-10-19  0:00 Y2K Issues John J Cupak Jr
1998-10-19  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-19  0:00   ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-20  0:00     ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-19  0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19  0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
     [not found] ` <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com>
1998-10-20  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-22  0:00     ` Mark Bennison
1998-10-22  0:00       ` dennison
1998-10-23  0:00         ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-20  0:00   ` dennison
1998-10-23  0:00     ` Michael F Brenner
1998-10-25  0:00   ` Michael Feldman
1998-10-26  0:00     ` dennison
1998-10-27  0:00       ` dewarr
1998-10-27  0:00         ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-27  0:00           ` Y2K Issues (well, not really...) Dave Wood
1998-10-28  0:00           ` Y2K Issues dennison
1998-10-28  0:00             ` Dave Wood
1998-10-27  0:00         ` John Herro
1998-10-26  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-26  0:00       ` Joel Seidman
1998-10-26  0:00         ` Y2K Issues - Warning Off-Topic Al Christians
1998-10-27  0:00       ` Y2K Issues dewarr
1998-10-27  0:00     ` dewarr
1998-10-29  0:00       ` system
1998-10-29  0:00         ` Al Christians
1998-11-02  0:00         ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-04  0:00           ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-05  0:00             ` dewarr
1998-11-06  0:00               ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-07  0:00                 ` dewarr
1998-11-06  0:00                   ` Al Christians
1998-11-08  0:00                     ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-08  0:00                       ` dewarr
1998-11-06  0:00               ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-27  0:00 ` Gautier de Montmollin
1998-10-28  0:00   ` dewar
1998-10-28  0:00     ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28  0:00       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-28  0:00         ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-29  0:00           ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-29  0:00             ` Mark A Biggar [this message]
1998-10-29  0:00             ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-29  0:00             ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-29  0:00               ` dewar
1998-10-29  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-30  0:00                   ` dennison
1998-10-31  0:00                     ` dewarr
1998-11-02  0:00                       ` dennison
1998-10-30  0:00                 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-30  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-31  0:00                   ` dewar
1998-10-28  0:00   ` Arthur Evans Jr
1998-10-28  0:00   ` adam
1998-10-28  0:00     ` Al Christians
1998-10-29  0:00     ` Samuel Mize
1998-11-04  0:00     ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-28  0:00   ` adam
1998-10-29  0:00     ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-10-23  0:00 Condic, Marin D.
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