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: 450667829 Sender: news@syd.csa.com.au X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dev7 References: <7be5ap$dh0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.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: Robert Dewar wrote: :In article , : nospam@thanks.com.au wrote: :> "A recursive declaration is one which is composed of at :> least one declaration defined (transitively) in terms :> of the declaration being considered." : :This is not even close to a formal definition .. Yes, it's an informal definition, but one that you ought to be able to comprehend. In any case, you haven't shown that non-linear elaboration is impossible. However, I accept it would be complex due to Ada's ambitious elaboration capabilities (including the ability to call operations). Linear elaboration may help reduce that complexity to an acceptable level. -- Don (Harrison). donh at syd.csa.com.au