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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Access parameters and accessibility
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:20:15 -0600
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:18:59 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
>> Ergo, in Ada 2012 you would write those as "in out 
>> Root_Stream_Type'Class".
>> And one should think of them as exactly that. (It's too late to fix this
>> mistake, sadly.)
>
> But stream attributes are hard-wired anyway. Why not to add ones with the
> in-out stream parameter? One one can be overridden (and so defines
> another), any can be used? It is similar to how "=" and "/=" are treated.

Might work, but it would be pretty messy and unclear (to most) that it would 
buy enough for the pain. Probably better to just plan on that in Ada++. :-)

                                 Randy.