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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!g27g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generic package parameters not externally visible : what's the rational ? Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <77fd676d-5dd2-4f2f-89fc-0d4152278843@g27g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.66.190.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1256681093 32538 127.0.0.1 (27 Oct 2009 22:04:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:04:53 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g27g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.66.190.2; posting-account=vrfdLAoAAAAauX_3XwyXEwXCWN3A1l8D User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; fr),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8815 Date: 2009-10-27T15:04:51-07:00 List-Id: continuation (forgotten in the latter) On 27 oct, 22:36, "Jeffrey R. Carter" wrote: > from the instance, so why complicate the language by providing it? while after all, it can be done with a work around, which does not break anything (well, only some personal cases perhaps, that's true as well).