From: ucaa2385@iris2.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)
Subject: Re: Implement Inheritance (Ada83)?
Date: 10 Mar 1995 09:35:31 GMT
Date: 1995-03-10T09:35:31+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3jp6h3$p2t@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: D555G8.EIK@inmet.camb.inmet.com
William Brennan (brennan@panther.warm.inmet.com) wrote:
: Almost all of the packages I have written over the past 5 years use
: private types for data abstraction. I have regularly seen occurences where
: some maintainer would come by, figure he/she didn't have immediate
: enough access to the type and move it into the visible part of the spec,
: breaking the encapsulation, of course. One can hear them muttering under
: their breath: "What's this _private_ stuff for anyway, it's only getting in
: my way!"
Most of the "need"s to do this will vanish with the
appearance of child packages, imho.
--
Peter Hermann Tel:+49-711-685-3611 Fax:3758 ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
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1995-03-07 19:03 Implement Inheritance (Ada83)? Jeff Seigle
1995-03-08 13:28 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1995-03-08 21:38 ` William Brennan
1995-03-10 9:35 ` Peter Hermann [this message]
1995-03-13 2:27 ` Mark A Biggar
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1995-03-10 15:15 Jeff Seigle
1995-03-03 13:51 Dwayne Barrington
1995-03-06 15:07 ` Kevin Weise
1995-03-07 12:19 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-07 13:19 ` Theodore E. Dennison
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