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Date: 18 Sep 91 14:24:54 GMT
From: hsdndev!encore!m2c!garbo!risky!dime!sandy@rutgers.edu  (& Wise)
Subject: Re: why are these unknown identifiers?
Message-ID: <SANDY.91Sep18102454@beeker.cs.umass.edu>
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In article <1991Sep17.145807.634@and.cs.liv.ac.uk> darren@uxa.liv.ac.uk (Mr. D.
 Harter) writes:
   My Ada's a bit rusty, too much exposer to C, but is your not going to use
   the base type of Y.DIRECTIONS at any point try this:

   with X;
   package Y is

           type DIRECTIONS renames X.DIRECTIONS;

   end Y;

   No flames if I'm wrong please.

No flames.  Just the simple observation that renames clauses do not
work for type declarations.  You must use subtypes for this.

        /s
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