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From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/18
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Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

: Modula-3, that would solve the problem quite nicely.  Since Ada is not
: designed to explicitly support opaque types, one must often use
: indirection to support this notion.  

I am unfamiliar with the term 'opaque type', perhaps because I never looked
at Modula-3. Can you explain what it means ?

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