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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org> wrote in message 
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> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> Address_To_Access_Conversions serves a different purpose. It declares a 
>> new
>> access type, moreover it is a general access type.
>
> That it defines its own access type is a design error, I agree, but not a 
> serious one. Rather than define your own access type, you use the one 
> defined by the instance of the package.

The reason why Address_To_Access_Conversions declares its own access type is 
to make sure that the access values used in these conversions are not "fat 
pointers". In other words, this design was chosen precisely to avoid the 
sort of problems exhibited in Test_String_Ptr.