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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Enumeration literal visibility and use type
Date: 1998/05/26
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John McCabe wrote in message <6kejt5$75u@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>...
>bralick@seas.smu.edu (William Bralick) wrote:
>
>Despite the obvious error, the "use type" clause is designed to provide
>visibility to the OPERATORS of the type, NOT the type itself so the
>behaviour you are seeing is correct.
>
John is correct.  The only way I've found to make the literals visible
(without
a context clause "use doodah;") is in the units requiring visibility is to
declare:

state_0 : constant doodah.state_value_type := doodah.state_0;
.
.
.
state_etc : constant doodah.state_value_type := doodah.state_etc;
Anyone have a better way?

David C. Hoos, Sr.