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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-26 10:52:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!nycmny1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!colt.net!diablo.theplanet.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: <3F74366B.7050303@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:57:32 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1064598758 81.98.236.164 (Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:52:38 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:52:38 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:43005 Date: 2003-09-26T18:57:32+01:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > chris writes: > > >>Marin David Condic wrote: >> >>>It seems that you get more than inheritance with tagged records and >>>packages. What did you want? >> >>"Protected" members, without using child packages. > > > The way you get "protected" members in Ada is to use child packages. > Why don't you like child packages? I didn't say that. I just wonder if it's always possible to use a child package. Is it? If so then I take it back.