Re: Two ideas for the next Ada standard

[Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>]

...and given someone has started this thread :-)

I presume the occasional murmers of unhappiness about the lack of utility
of private packages is due to the fact that they can't be 'with'ed by
a public {package|subprogram} spec because of the possibility of 
revealing private details (is this right?).

If this is the case then could we have...


	with private fred; -- this does not mean fred is private!
	                   -- perhaps "private with fred;" would be
	                   -- better?
	
	package mary is
	
		...
	private
		-- can only use resources from fred in
		-- the private section, e.g. for renames,
		-- type completions etc.
	end mary;

?

Gee, this is fun! :-).


Dale