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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Can't export object of private type
Date: 1999/03/01
Date: 1999-03-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vhgm9b88.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F7w5zn.G7z@syd.csa.com.au

nospam@thanks.com.au (Don Harrison) writes:

> Nick Roberts wrote:
> 
> :   package Planetary is
>        ...
> :      type Planet_Id is private;
>        ...
> :   private
> :      ...
> :   end Planetary;
> 
> The problem here is that you lose the property of having a single instance:
> 
> >   1) Have only one instance
> 
> Since Planet_Id is exported, anyone can declare an object of that type. 
> We want to ensure there is only a single instance shared by all clients.


Then declare the Plant_Id type as limited and indefinite:

package Planetary is

  type Planet_Id (<>) is limited private;

...
end Planetary;





  reply	other threads:[~1999-03-01  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 128+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <F7JoCB.JxB@syd.csa.com.au>
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       ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26  0:00         ` Don Harrison
1999-02-26  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26  0:00             ` bourguet
1999-02-26  0:00               ` Samuel T. Harris
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
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Stephen Leake
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Don Harrison
1999-03-01  0:00               ` robert_dewar
1999-03-03  0:00                 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-03  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-27  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1999-03-01  0:00           ` robert_dewar
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 [this message]
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
1999-03-04  0:00                         ` Don Harrison
1999-03-07  0:00                     ` Ehud Lamm
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           ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-01  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-02  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25  0:00       ` fraser
1999-02-26  0:00         ` Don Harrison
1999-02-26  0:00           ` fraser
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Don Harrison
1999-03-01  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
     [not found]           ` <7b6nqe$75m$1@remarq.com>
1999-02-26  0:00             ` fraser
1999-02-27  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
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
1999-02-28  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-28  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
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
     [not found]                             ` <m3ogm40wav.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>
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
1999-03-08  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                       ` fraser
1999-03-09  0:00                         ` Don Harrison
1999-03-04  0:00                       ` 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                       ` 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
1999-03-08  0:00                     ` Can't export object of private type Matthew Heaney
1999-03-08  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-08  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-10  0:00                   ` Don Harrison
1999-03-10  0:00                     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-10  0:00                       ` dennison
1999-03-10  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10  0:00                           ` dennison
1999-03-10  0:00                             ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10  0:00                               ` dennison
1999-03-11  0:00                                 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-11  0:00                                   ` Don Harrison
1999-03-12  0:00                                     ` robert_dewar
1999-03-11  0:00                                 ` dennison
1999-03-11  0:00                                 ` bill
1999-03-11  0:00                                   ` dennison
1999-03-11  0:00                                   ` Scott Ingram
1999-03-11  0:00                                     ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-12  0:00                                   ` dewar
1999-03-11  0:00                           ` Don Harrison
1999-03-10  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-10  0:00                           ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10  0:00                           ` dennison
1999-03-11  0:00                             ` dennison
1999-03-03  0:00           ` Don Harrison
1999-02-28  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-28  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
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