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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Subject: Rationale for this not to compile?
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:53:32 +0300
Date: 2014-07-24T23:53:32+03:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lqrro8$hbi$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)

Is there any rationale why this does not compile? If it compiled, it would 
be probably useful in practice with a real example similar to the below toy 
example (as to make the type T not private, I must create an *.Internal.* 
package to serve as a "private repository" for types like T, as real private 
types cannot be used). It is called a hack.

gnatmake -q -c -gnatc -u -P/home/porton/t/default.gpr test.ads
test.ads:10:32: premature use of private type
gnatmake: "/home/porton/t/test.ads" compilation error

package Test is

   generic
      type T is limited private;
   package Gen is
   end Gen;
   
   type X is private;

   package Instance is new Gen(X);
   
private
   
   type X is null record;
   
end Test;

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org


             reply	other threads:[~2014-07-24 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-24 20:53 Victor Porton [this message]
2014-07-24 21:36 ` Rationale for this not to compile? Adam Beneschan
2014-07-25  5:29   ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-25 12:19     ` Victor Porton
2014-07-25 12:35       ` AdaMagica
2014-07-25 14:40     ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-25 19:45       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-25 20:33         ` Robert A Duff
2014-07-25 13:18 ` Victor Porton
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