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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,29e947df2e56cc40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-29 16:32:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc01.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D44AC3D.80607@attbi.com> From: Larry Elmore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020615 Debian/1.0.0-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's it's name again? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.255.172.47 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc01 1027985534 12.255.172.47 (Mon, 29 Jul 2002 23:32:14 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 23:32:14 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 23:32:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27463 Date: 2002-07-29T23:32:14+00:00 List-Id: chris.danx wrote: > Hi, > > What do you call private types whose declaration is found in the > specification but whose definition is found in the body? I remember > reading/hearing that they have a name (or term) associated with them, > but can't remember what it is. > > Are there any complications with moving type definitions to the body? > (e.g. with controlled types?). Cohens' book is at the ready, just need > their name or a pointer! I think what you want is covered in 11.2 of Cohen (p. 465 in my copy), and they're called incomplete type declarations. I'm re-learning Ada and just happened to cover that section last night. :) --Larry