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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa7f494bf30adbc7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [newbie] simple(?) data structures References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <7B0zc.3716$Wr.1541@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:58:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1087149507 63.184.104.160 (Sun, 13 Jun 2004 10:58:27 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 10:58:27 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1449 Date: 2004-06-13T17:58:27+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: >>type Go_Board( Go_Size : Go_Range ) is private; > > But the OP now expands on his initial request with > >>And perhaps I want to later extend the type. Maybe with a move history. > > so he would want > type Go_Board( Go_Size : Go_Range ) is tagged private; > to allow such additions later. I think the OP did not mean "extend" as in "type extension", but rather as in "add stuff to the type declaration", so using a tagged type would probably be overkill. -- Jeff Carter "You tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail 18