scope and visibility

[Dave Poirier <instinc@users.sf.net>]

this is most certainly a FAQ one, but, I've been reading the Lovelace 
tutorial, tried reading chapter 8 of the ALRM and read the part 
concerning visibility in Ada Distilled.

I understand the difference between 'with' and 'use', that's no problem, 
but I'm having quite a hard time with 'private' and friends.  Is there 
any tutorial detailing from side-to-side how those work for ada-newbies?

The chapter 8 of the ALRM is definately complete but is so full of Ada 
terms that I'd have to spend 10 days pulling my hair going from side to 
side of the book to figure it out.  Most Ada-newbie tutorial teaches you 
how to write basic apps skimming visibility (mostly talk about with/use 
and that's it).

Any url, doc, explanation whatever would be greatly appreciated.  I've 
been trying for the past 4 hours to created a Bounded_String and just 
can't get it.

Thanks,
EKS - Dave Poirier.


note: something nice full of examples using the Ada libraries, with both 
working and non-working examples for all possible combinations and why 
they [don't] work...