From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Can't export object of private type
Date: 1999/02/28
Date: 1999-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3iucm188w.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7b47m3$l2l$1@remarQ.com
fraser@synopsys.like.how.smart.are.email.greppers.anyway.com writes:
> What about a parameterless function that returns that type? The only
> down side being that you'd have to override it for each extension.
> Or maybe that's not a down side, depending on what you want to do.
>
> package Test is
>
> type T is tagged private;
> procedure Do_Something (With_T : T);
>
> function P return T;
> -- function P return T'Class might also be what you want.
>
> private
>
> type T is tagged null record;
>
> end Test;
This will only work if you don't have to modify the object. To do that,
you need to return a reference to the object:
function Ref return T_Access;
and then say
Op (Ref.all);
so refer to the actual object.
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1999-02-24 0:00 ` Can't export object of private type Don Harrison
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` fraser
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-02 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-02-26 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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1999-02-26 0:00 ` fraser
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
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1999-03-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Don Harrison
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1999-02-27 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-02-27 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-28 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
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1999-03-01 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
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1999-02-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-01 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-02 0:00 ` nabbasi
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Single Extension; Polymorphic Arrays Nick Roberts
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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1999-03-08 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-08 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Can't export object of private type Don Harrison
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Abstract Subprograms of Untagged Types Nick Roberts
1999-03-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-06 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Can't export object of private type Nick Roberts
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-04 0:00 ` fraser
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1999-03-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Don Harrison
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