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-Thread: 103376,34257fd17abeba14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.germany.com!multikabel.net!feed20.multikabel.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [SPARK] Code safety and information hiding References: <7V3Fg.13573$E02.5018@newsb.telia.net> <_C8Fg.96140$FQ1.5902@attbi_s71> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:35:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.106.238 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1156073716 83.250.106.238 (Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:35:16 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:35:16 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6278 Date: 2006-08-20T11:35:16+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: > We're talking about variables that are not global (in a package spec), > not local(in the innermost declarative region that references them), and > not state variables (in a package body and referenced by the public > operations of the package). In the spectrum of locality they're > intermediate. > > In terms of use, we have global, state, and local variables, and these > things, that don't fit any of those concepts. Precisely. They're intermediate, but "intermediately local" is even more unwieldy. (Is "intermediately" even a word?) How about "half-local"? "Semilocal"? -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu