Re: Assignment of limited private types...

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

WIth regard to the question of how to pass file types to a task, you can
always use a level of indirection and use a type

   type Access_File_Type is access File_Type;

In Ada 83, this requires that you allocate your File_Type variables on
the heap, which is a bit annoying, but in Ada 95, you could use aliased
File_Type variables, and then get the necessary access values using 'Access:

   My_File : aliased File_Type;

   Open (My_File ....)

   Initialize_Task (My_File'Access);