Re: child packages and nested packages

[okellogg@freenet.de (Oliver Kellogg)]

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.

However, IDL interfaces and valuetypes require implementations.
For example, the IDL to Ada mapping prescribes that the 
implementation of interface A::B be done in a child package of 
A.B named A.B.Impl. It would certainly be the preferable to
maintain this mapping, but that's not possible with Ada right now.

-- Oliver Kellogg