Re: on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it?

[john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe)]

On Tue, 09 Oct 2001 09:41:45 +0200, Francisco Javier Loma Daza
<Francisco.Loma@isotrol.com> wrote:

>
>>  John McCabe wrote:
>> 
>> Try this naming convention using generic instantiation of a generic
>> child package. As far as I can remember, there are serious problems
>> with attempting this, hence my comment earlier on this thread.
>> 
>
>Could you elaborate please? I use this naming convention in my diploma
>project, and it works rather well for me.

I'm trying to get hold of one - it was actually a colleague at my old
job who discovered the problem but he hasn't found his example yet :-)

I believe the problem occurs if you have something like:

generic
   ....
package Parent is
   type Object is tagged
      record
         ...
      end record;

   procedure Op_1 (This : in Object);
end Parent;

then

with Parent;
generic
   ...
package Parent.Child is
   type Object is new Parent.Object with
      record
         ...
      end record;

   procedure Op_1 (This : in Object);
end Parent.Child;

It may be a scoping issue because in Parent.Child you have direct
visibilty of the 'Object' type in Parent. It may not be a problem at
this point, but possibly when another 'class' instantiates both of
these packages.

If/when I get a firm example I'll let you know.