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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: "(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: 'private' and Privacy
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:25:10 +0100
Message-ID: <C67A78E6.11C396%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>
References: <843a36b0-041d-4826-98b4-0fbcb1a4d287@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: individual.net tllC80CFokEOZiFjGgkifwzx+i3AAtyHek1D8QeVwqWMdDRmlR
Cancel-Lock: sha1:wyZWvITvsuKcDZ7dFAdagkrvGOU=
User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.19.0.090515
Thread-Topic: 'private' and Privacy
Thread-Index: Acn/4Efaj5sHJfzavk6/OOaVpalMQQ==
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6911
Date: 2009-07-08T16:25:10+01:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 08/07/2009 03:48, in article
843a36b0-041d-4826-98b4-0fbcb1a4d287@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com, "Rick"
<rickduley@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have never fathomed out why we declare entities in packages to be
> 'private' and then have to go and tell the world what is in them.  I
> would assume that 'private' has something to do with 'information
> hiding' yet we expose what is 'private'.

In this context 'private' is a technical property. It means that the
following details are hidden from client code, not from a human reader.

It is not clear how the latter restriction might be imposed.
White-on-white pixels? Invisible printer ink? 8-)

(Yes, I know about LIS and its triple package components.)

-- 
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk