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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Package Instances???
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Excellent illustration. Lat time I checked though, there were several C++
compilers not supporting namespaces though - notably MSVC++, IIRC. Not
involved with it at the moment, so maybe its changed. Are more C++ compilers
supporting it? (It sure does overcome some of the big limitations I found
with C++...)

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"Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com> wrote in message
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>
> Yes.  An Ada package is analogous to a C++ namespace, not a class.
>
> Actually, there's a straight-forward conversion from C++ to Ada:
>
> namespace N
> {
>    class C
>    {
>    public:
>       //...
>    private:
>       //...
>    };
> } //end namespace N
>
> package P is
>    type T is private;
>    --...
> private
>    type T is record ...;
>    --...
> end P;
>