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=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,547701ea20bce1b1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Private Types??? Date: 1999/05/30 Message-ID: <7irjdr$rul$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 483744083 References: <7iqq2s$imd$1@pinah.connect.com.au> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x32.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 166.72.71.100 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun May 30 14:53:47 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7iqq2s$imd$1@pinah.connect.com.au>, "Ern" wrote: > Please, if anyone can help me, please email me directly > because I don't often visit these groups. <> You will find that people are reluctant to follow such a direction. Why? Because newsgroups are not intended as a free source of help, but rather as a cooperative of people helping one another. A statement like the above labels you as a taker-only, rather than as a member of the cooperative who is willing to contribute your expertise in return for others contributing theirs. Yes, some can contribute more than others, but opting out up front is not in the spirit of things. Furthermore, the thread that you start with such a request is only interesting if others can read and learn from it. That is why people take the energy to help with people's problems. So, please, if you are writing Ada programs, join the group. Use a thread following news reader (such as Deja News) so that you can quickly skip the threads you are not interested in, and you will find that keeping up with a low traffic group like CLA is not a time consuming task. As for your specific problem, post your code, and I am sure there will be people who are happy to post followups in this thread to discuss the problem once your code is posted. One thing you might do as you post is to reassure people that you are not asking for people to do your class assignments for you. As has been discussed many times here, most people are reluctant to harm students by doing their homework for them! Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.