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Subject: Re: Idiom for a class and an object in Ada
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:55:52 -0400
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"Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote in message 
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> Personally, I would _never_ mix classes (or ADT's) and instances of them 
> within the same package or even in the same package hierarchy.

I suggest you start using Ada95 to program in ... Ada95.

Declare the type as limited and indefinite, and declare selector functions 
to return references to the statically-declared instances.  Just like 
Text_IO.