Re: Need advice re package organization.

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:00:00 -0400, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG"
> <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote:
>>Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>>>Such subroutines could be viewed as an
>>>equivalent to C++'s "private methods". What Ada does not have are
>>>private data members in C++ sense. So we have:
>>>
>>>protected in C++ <--> private in Ada
>>>private method <--> a subroutine in the body [a FAT plus to Ada ]
>>>private member  <--> missing [a minus]
>>
>>I think you need to add a dimension to this "chart", because
>>there are multiple (at least 2) views:
>>
>>  1. simple client view
>>  2. a _normal_ child package view
>>
>>  (a _private_ child's view is the same I think, but if not, this
>>   is a 3rd).
>>
>>The problem I am trying to address, is #2. The child package sees
>>all, even when you don't want it to.
> 
> But if you do not want to see private things, then the package should
> not be a child.

You are missing the point. If the package is not a child package,
then this new package loses all access to the other private
types declared in the private section. Sometimes you need to have
things both ways.

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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