From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Generic child unit renaming
Date: 1999/04/25
Date: 1999-04-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k8v0mh3n.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7fnhph$m0c$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
dennison@telepath.com writes:
> My understanding is that users are not allowed to make children of
> language-defined units (eg: anything in Ada.*).
I think the rule is that you can't have _direct_ children of Ada, but
that the language doesn't prohibit indirect children, ie grandchildren
are allowed.
> That would allow you visibility into the private section of any
> language-defined unit, which would allow you to do unspeakable things.
But that's my choice to make. The language, and the compiler vendor,
should get out of my way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-25 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-21 0:00 Generic child unit renaming noiraud
1999-04-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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