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: 109fba,c890e6ab3fb2c5fc X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c890e6ab3fb2c5fc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-26 20:05:58 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!udel!news.mathworks.com!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: ADA Objects Help! Date: 26 Jan 1995 23:05:58 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3g9rf6$hkn@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <3f9g1u$j4m@nps.navy.mil> <3fcs59$70s@nps.navy.mil> <3ff186$c19@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <3fhggr$11dp@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <3forgl$11cd@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:18367 comp.lang.c++:88209 Date: 1995-01-26T23:05:58-05:00 List-Id: Interesting, that's certainly a drastic restriction (stopping package types from exporting types and exceptions), and to my mind breaks the abstrction of a package (after all defining a procedure without being able to define its associated types seems unfortunate). Still I will wait to read the thesis. Certainly if you restrict packages enough they can be types (if you restrict them enough, they are simply records :-)