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: 103376,88e7ef9008757431 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Matthew Heaney" Subject: Re: Function Calls by Address Date: 1999/09/05 Message-ID: <37d24bc3@news1.prserv.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 521273084 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <37CADE68.6AF06F5D@escmail.orl.lmco.com> <37CEEFFA.7D73F78D@magic.fr> <7qooh7$hbh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37CFFEA6.921CBE59@magic.fr> <7qp8sd$u8i$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7qpd5b$1gg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7qt4dv$fp7$1@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Complaints-To: postmaster@ibm.net X-Trace: 5 Sep 1999 10:53:55 GMT, 32.101.8.138 Organization: Global Network Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services Mime-version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7qt4dv$fp7$1@wanadoo.fr> , "Jean-Pierre Rosen" wrote: > If you use a child package, then the "data visible" must be put in the > private part of the parent, which may have other drawbacks. I doesn't have to go in the private part of the parent's spec. It could almost as easily go in an public part of a private child. The private child could be with'd by whichever module needs access to the data. > In short: there is certainly no definitive "best solution". The best > recommendation is: "know the tools that are available, know their drawbacks > and benefits, and choose the most appropriate for the task at hand on a case > by case basis". Well said. I lot of guys give themselves rules about features not to use, but they are unwittingly reducing the size of the solution space. -- 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"