Re: Instantiating package problems

[Andrew Shvets <andrew.shvets@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 4:50:15 PM UTC-5, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 10.01.16 20:43, Andrew Shvets wrote:
> >
> >   When you instantiate a record (which is described in the private portion of a package), does that mean that the insides (the different types, lists, arrays, etc.) that compose it are not visible to others except through setter and getter methods?
> >
> 
> when a type is declared as a private type in some page P,
> 
> package P is
> 
>     type T ... is ... private;
> 
> then, outside the package, only public operations are visible,
> basically anything that follows the declaration until another
> "private" introduces the private part of P. Hence, no data
> components of any object of type P.T declared outside.
> 
> Suppose
> 
> package P is
>     type T is private;
>     procedure op1 (Object : in out T);
> private
>    type T is record
>       c1 : T1 := Foo(N);
>       c2 : T2;
>    end record;
> end P;
> 
> then I think it is fair to say this C++ type is an analogue,
> perhaps declared in a file "p.hpp", or in namespace P:
> 
> struct T {
> private:
>    T1 c1;
>    T2 c2;
> public:
>    T() : c1(foo(n))
>     {
>    }
>    void op1(void);
> };

Thanks for your reply.  I understand now.