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: 103376,b5b75c5bf3ae7291 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-10 17:44:59 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!snert!subnet.sub.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!iris2.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de!ucaa2385 From: ucaa2385@iris2.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Implement Inheritance (Ada83)? Date: 10 Mar 1995 09:35:31 GMT Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: <3jp6h3$p2t@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <3jiala$kqs@explorer.csc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: iris2.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de Date: 1995-03-10T09:35:31+00:00 List-Id: 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 Pfaffenwaldring 27, 70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)