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-Thread: 103376,29d8139471e3f53e,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feeder.erje.net!news.internetdienste.de!newsfeed.velia.net!news.tu-darmstadt.de!news.belwue.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.gnuher.de!news.enyo.de!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Preventing type extensions Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:18:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87iq2bfenl.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: idssi.enyo.de 1284286734 18865 172.17.135.6 (12 Sep 2010 10:18:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@enyo.de Cancel-Lock: sha1:7OM/EWfUPzEdz1fdbXKL416jrhM= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14023 Date: 2010-09-12T12:18:54+02:00 List-Id: Suppose I've got a tagged type. I want to expose the fact that it is a tagged type outside its package, but want to prevent type extensons. (In short, I'm interested in something like final classes in Java or C++0X.) Can this be done?