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From: Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>
Subject: Why can't Ada use dot notation on private types?
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 06:17:04 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2017-02-05T06:17:04-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d1956163-4a96-4e39-97d5-0a516e9a954c@googlegroups.com> (raw)

Hi,

A lot of people dislike the fact that you cannot use dot notation on a tagged type if it's private. Is there a reason for this? Surely the compiler knows it's tagged when it looks it up?

Luke.

             reply	other threads:[~2017-02-05 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-05 14:17 Lucretia [this message]
2017-02-05 15:31 ` Why can't Ada use dot notation on private types? Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-02-06 19:44   ` Randy Brukardt
2017-02-06 20:27     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-02-08 23:26       ` Randy Brukardt
2017-02-09  8:47         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2017-02-06 19:40 ` Randy Brukardt
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