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From: "Rick Santa-Cruz" <rick_santa_cruz75@msn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: access private element of base-class
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 02:35:22 +0200
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Hi,

again something with Ada is unclear to me. In the thread:
http://groups.google.de/groups?q=ada+protected+c%2B%2B&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=slrn8ljk2n.qv2.gisle%40struts.ii.uib.no&rnum=6
I read, that the Ada-private is more similar to protected than to C++ 
private, so I tried the following:

-- specification of Base-Class
package Base_Class is
    type Base is tagged private;

    private
        type Base is tagged
        record
            Number: Integer;
        end record;
end Base_Class;

-- specification of Derived-Class
with Base_Class;
use Base_Class;
package Derived_Class is
 type Derived is new Base with private;

 procedure Derived_Proc(D: in out Derived; Num :Integer);
 private
  type Derived is new Base with
   null record;
end Derived_Class;

-- body of Derived-Class
package body Derived_Class is
 procedure Derived_Proc(D: in out Derived; Num :Integer) is
 begin
  D.Number := Num; -- here I get a compiler error. Why?
 end Derived_Proc;
end Derived_Class;

Why can't I access Number which is a private-Element of the Base-Class?

Thanks for any help,
Rick