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On Jun 8, 11:40=A0pm, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

> Packages like GNAT.Sockets.Thin are supposed to be private packages; then
> users *couldn't* use it (it would be illegal to reference in a with claus=
e).
> Indeed, the reason that "private with" was added in Ada 2005 was to make
> that more possible.

Even in Ada95 it could have been 'private package GNAT.Sockets.Thin'.
At any rate in the Mac OS X version I have here. This may or may not
have been a design decision, even if not I suspect that AdaCore have
too many customers using the low-level interfce for a change to be
easy.