From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,16b1ef91d331648c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Matthew Heaney" Subject: Re: Barnes vs. Dewar Date: 1999/08/27 Message-ID: <37c6fe0a@news1.us.ibm.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 517943218 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <37C66E08.16DB@dera.gov.uk> X-Trace: 27 Aug 1999 21:07:22 GMT, 129.37.213.102 Organization: Global Network Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services X-Notice: should be reported to postmaster@ibm.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Mime-version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: postmaster@ibm.net Date: 1999-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert A Duff wrote: > You may declare Initialize in the visible part of > Tracked_Things.User_View, and it will override the privately-inherited > Initialize, and it will also be visible outside this package. Wow! I didn't know you could do that. I just assumed that once private, then always private, for all descendents. > Is that what you want? Good question. It's bad enough that a controlled operation is public, but it's even worse when public-ness only applies to some types in the class. -- Matt It is impossible to feel great confidence in a negative theory which has always rested its main support on the weak points of its opponent. Joseph Needham, "A Mechanistic Criticism of Vitalism"