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Subject: Re: Ada OOP alternatives?
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:11:10 +0100
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On 16/07/2008 15:07, in article wcciqv56hxs.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com,
"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:

> Private parts are a kludge.  I don't think they should exist.
> And if they do exist, they should not be syntactically attached
> to the visible part -- they should normally be stored in a
> separate source file.

IIRC, in LIS Ichbiah went for a 3-component module, with interface (spec),
representation (private) and implementation (body) files.

I always wondered why Ada departed from that.
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