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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a6449b2443dcdda1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Access keyword Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:32:40 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <48188308.3030407@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX19fI4g0usgOOFwU8E7LOxDbvwGp3+Dn5cnTFeovX0m7oybcfk5DXhbHhM+vDlPM714BGuOUM2/RGrrglNK3be/anp30kSy79dgNNw/0IO6M41VZOZoUQiIbvAwVLeSEye7ihcz8itthsg== X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:32:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19gTxh/sgNqvflXwfFNBL0a0c2XjN5law5Y6QAn6/ohHg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:pud+jFJ00lu99St6xFkCxKQm3Xo= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21138 Date: 2008-04-30T14:32:40+00:00 List-Id: > You often need access *types* to implement the bodies of decent > abstractions, but it is rare that they need to be exposed in the interface > in any way. I got the point, it's exaclty what happen in some example of chain linked implementation, I understood this usage and why they shouldn't be used in the way of C/C++ (the world where I come from actually).