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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8eff44ec1bcf8433 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-17 06:17:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator2-austin!propagator!feed2.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9qctpn$lil$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3BCA86C7.BB252751@acm.org> <%jYy7.31350$ev2.37672@www.newsranger.com> <3BCD7C50.647ADBD0@brighton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Container reqs Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:16:40 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:16:40 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14799 Date: 2001-10-17T13:16:40+00:00 List-Id: In article <3BCD7C50.647ADBD0@brighton.ac.uk>, John English says... > >of controlled). And you can use tricks to get around the library-level >problem, e.g. have a library-level parent package which defines a private >controlled type and generic children which make use of those controlled >objects as components in other composite types... This sounds a bit like the trick Dr. Dewar keeps referring to. I know this is off the thread's topic, but could you give a specific example of how this works? I could never see how one could use a controlled-type record field to manage anything in its parent object, about which it theoreticly knows nothing. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.