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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM
	autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca85d557480cf473
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-07 19:26:06 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!130.133.1.3!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pcp01485549pcs.limstn01.de.comcast.NET!not-for-mail
From: Ryan Tarpine <rtarpine@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Hiding a type
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 22:24:24 +0000
Message-ID: <3D28BF98.8080000@hotmail.com>
References: <3D27263F.7070101@hotmail.com>
 <7kJV8.2438$gy3.1099236449@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com>
 <3D2733F4.8010304@hotmail.com> <ag7sbn$db9$1@bob.news.rcn.net>
 <x7vd6tziy2c.fsf@pushface.org> <ag9hef$pp6$1@bob.news.rcn.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pcp01485549pcs.limstn01.de.comcast.net (68.82.51.136)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1026095164 20943477 68.82.51.136 (16 [151722])
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020617
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26931
Date: 2002-07-07T22:24:24+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Frank J. Lhota wrote:
>...
> Given further clarification by Ryan, I would recommend the following:
> 
> package Test is
>      type Public_Name is limited private;
>      procedure Initialize( Item : in out Public_Name; File_Name : in
> String );
>      procedure Process( Input : Public_Name );
> private
>      -- May want to declare the following type as abstract.
>      type Private_Root_Type is tagged record ... end record;
>      type Public_Name is access all Private_Root_Type'Class;
> end Test;
> 

My heartfelt thanks to everyone for all your helpful explanations!  You 
have given me a much better understanding of the situation.  The above 
solution was my favorite, and I plan to use it in my application.

Thanks again,
Ryan