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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> A short question. Why not:
> 
>    type Element (<>) is limited private;
> 
> [I am using this in my containers because it is weaker than just
> limited private.]

A short answer, Matt has provided additional discussion.  There are many 
cases in Ada where you can wrap a limited object with discriminants in a 
record without discriminats.  It seems crazy, but the package which is 
now Ada.Strings.Bounded started out as a "trick" I kept distributing to 
show how to do it.

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