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,af92cb4b0cc736af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-31 10:20:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DC17454.6020407@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: problem with abstract types References: <3DC12CFF.EC36842C@brighton.ac.uk> <3DC165F9.9000000@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:20:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.9.196 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1036088427 63.184.9.196 (Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:20:27 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:20:27 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30266 Date: 2002-10-31T18:20:27+00:00 List-Id: I think this problem has already been solved. Do a search of c.l.a on Google groups. Of course, maybe you're doing this as a learning experience, and so don't want to reuse an existing library, but if not ... Robert I. Eachus wrote: > > declare > reg := openRegistry(CLASS_USER,"registrytest"); > begin I'm going to risk making a donkey of Fred Bloggs and his brother and guess that he really meant to type Reg : Registry'Class := Open_Registry (...); I have used Open_Registry because that's the Ada Way :) -- Jeff Carter "If you think you got a nasty taunting this time, you ain't heard nothing yet!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail