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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,41c5dc8789baf2f3 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.180.82.166 with SMTP id j6mr2308719wiy.1.1347954746144; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:52:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.35.84 with SMTP id f20mr1190149vdj.3.1347954745799; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Path: ed8ni114471314wib.0!nntp.google.com!v8no30010qap.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:52:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=195.58.145.51; posting-account=28F2IwkAAACL1Z5nRC-dE7zuvWdbWC7P NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.58.145.51 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Understanding Visibility From: tonyg Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:52:26 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-09-18T00:52:25-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, 17 September 2012 21:42:28 UTC+1, tonyg wrote: > I needed to log some stuff from several tasks in one program. So I wrote a little logging package. I used a package containing several text_io.file_types followed by a protected object to make sure the file operations were not interfered with. > > However when things were passed through to inside the protected object I found that the file was not taking the information being passed to it. Can anyone explain this to me, as I think the file should be visible. Thanks Guys, point taken Dmitry, I'll take a look at Traces Thomas.