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From: Eric Merritt <cyberlync@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Package Instances???
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:50:06 -0800 (PST)
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Date: 2002-02-13T13:50:06-08:00

Yates,
 
  You may actually be getting packages mixed up with
classes as used in other languages. Packages are not
so much a coherent whole as a collection of types and
variables that you may use in your client program. So
although you would not do

p1 : My_Package := new My_Package;

you would do something like

p1: My_Package.My_Type : Create_New_My_Type;

(If there was a function named Create_New_My_Type in
the package). 

I would suggest you hit some of the excellent
tutorials available to get you over this hump.

--- Yates <yates_1900@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am new to Ada. I'd like to know if it is possible
> to create multiple
> instances of a package. For example, if I have a
> package 'My_Package',  can
> I do something like:
> 
> p1 : My_Package := new My_Package
> p2 : My_Package := new My_Package
> .....
> 
> I tried this and didn't work. Is there other ways to
> do it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Yates
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