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From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: An observation of Ada (may offend)
Date: 21 Mar 1995 19:28:59 -0600
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In article <3knah2$p4m@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>,
Norman H. Cohen <ncohen@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>In article <EACHUS.95Mar20111527@spectre.mitre.org>, eachus@spectre.mitre.org
>(Robert I. Eachus) writes: 
>|>                                     But I wish that the ability to
>|> acknowledge child units had been built into the language so that, for
>|> example a pragma Restrictions(No_Unspecified_Child_Units); would make
>|> sense.
>(-:  (-:  (-: 
>
>At one point I suggested that a package be allowed to have an "absolutely
>private" part, hidden even from children: 
>
>   package P is
>      ...
>   abs private
>      ...
>   end P;
>
>(I took the liberty of abbreviating "absolutely" to avoid the need for a
>new reserved word.)  Somebody (sorry, can't remember who) did me one
>better, suggesting the following syntax: 
>
>   package P is
>      ...
>   private for all with out exception
>      ...
>   end P;
>

Clever, but inelegant.  I always favored:

	package P is
	   ...
	private private
	   ...
	end P;

Of course, I've suggested MUCH worse things to the MRT :-)

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