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From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com>
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Subject: Re: Hiding a type
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> The idea is that if I have 3 kinds of nodes (N1, N2, N3) with respective
> access types, I can rename one to be the public type (Root).  All
> private functions will take N1_Ptrs, N2_Ptrs, etc.  Only the public
> functions should take a Root.

This is beginning to sound like a case for using tagged types. Please look
into it, you may be able to turn your "kind of ugly" hack into something
beautiful.