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From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Richard Volz' Comment About the DSA at TRI-Ada
Date: 1996/12/11
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Matthew Heaney (mheaney@ni.net) wrote:

: At last week's TRI-Ada, Richard Volz (one of the invited speakers) made the
: comment during his presentation that he had found an error in the
: Distributed Systems Annex, and had brought it to Tucker Taft's attention.

: Does anyone have any info about the error to which he was referring?

Not so much a bug, as an unnecessary limitation.
The relevant paragraph is E.2.2(8):

    ... Such a type shall be ... a general access type that
    designates a class-wide limited private type.

For flexibility, T'Class should be allowed provided T is a private 
extension of a private extension ... of a limited private type.

: Matthew Heaney
: Software Development Consultant
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: (818) 985-1271

-Tucker Taft   stt@inmet.com   http://www.inmet.com/~stt/
Intermetrics, Inc.  Cambridge, MA  USA