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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Subverting 'Access for Sub-programs
Date: 1999/08/03
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In article <37A71EF1.2201@dera.gov.uk>,
  Anton Gibbs <agibbs@dera.gov.uk> wrote:

> The offending statement is the one containing the 'Access because
> Print_If_Even is declared at deeper level than it.
>
> So how can I achieve what I need here (ie. visibility of parameter I)
> without either: a) using global data and making the whole thing
> unnecessarily non-reentrant; or b) recourse to the usual generic
> contortions which I thought Ada95's procedure access types had allowed

Easy. Declare your accessed routine at the top level of a package.

I've run into this several times. Every time it was when I was trying to
write a toy example or a test driver. Under normal circumstances the
client of your package will probably be another package anyway.

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