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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: child packages and nested packages
Date: 28 Mar 2002 06:49:22 -0800
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okellogg@freenet.de (Oliver Kellogg) wrote in message news:<6a6390b8.0203280151.6681fd8f@posting.google.com>...
> Some background:
> 
> The CORBA IDL to Ada mapping prescribes that nested IDL modules,
> interfaces, and valuetypes be mapped to child packages.
> This mapping is fundamentally flawed.
> Example:
> 
> // IDL
> module A {
>    interface B {
>       typedef short type_in_b;
>       void my_method ();
>    };
> 
>    typedef B::type_in_b type_in_a;
> };
> 
> Since the interface B is mapped to a child package A.B, it is not 
> possible to map type_in_a to Ada.
> 
> The solution is to map nested IDL units to nested Ada packages.

Why can't "type_in_a" be put inside the same "A" package as "B"? That
would compile, and would seem to be the natural mapping of this.