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: 103376,7f854d193f44af15 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit 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: access private element of base-class References: <2035878.fXVvL0czMB@linux1.krischik.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:51:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.8.110 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1096829472 63.184.8.110 (Sun, 03 Oct 2004 11:51:12 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 11:51:12 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4617 Date: 2004-10-03T18:51:12+00:00 List-Id: Brian May wrote: > In Ada you can put multiple "classes" in one package. Hence there is > no need to use "friends". I was thinking of child packages, which have visibility, in their private parts and bodies, to the parent's private part. Thus, a child has the same visibility as a "friend", without the parent having to name or even know about the child. -- Jeff Carter "English bed-wetting types." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 15