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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,772ae8afc5db35f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nospam@thanks.com.au (Don Harrison) Subject: Re: Can't export object of private type Date: 1999/03/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 450628187 Sender: news@syd.csa.com.au X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dev7 References: <7bh89c$ijp$1@remarQ.com> Organization: CSC Australia, Sydney Reply-To: nospam@thanks.com.au Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I nearly cried when nospam@thanks.com.au said: (Oh, it's nothing personal (the tagline) btw, I'm just very sensitive like that. .. Well, it's distinctive anyway. :) [..] >I guess I was aware of implicit dereferencing. What I didn't appreciate >was the value of combining it with formal access-parameters. Oh, yes indeedy woo. The day it dawned on me that you could do that was a good day. .. [example] How Ada's OO mechanisms are supposed to hang together hasn't completely gelled for me yet but some of the pieces have fallen into place. Thanks for your help. -- Don (Harrison). donh at syd.csa.com.au