From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: Private with -- what for?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:22:58 -0500
Date: 2011-02-16T20:22:58-05:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: fe7542ee-1ad4-4019-bf4f-c541cefe13a1@a11g2000pro.googlegroups.com
In article
<fe7542ee-1ad4-4019-bf4f-c541cefe13a1@a11g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
Rick <rickduley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just looking at
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Packages
> and the concept of "private with ..."
>
> There must be some advantage in using it, but I cannot imagine what
> that could be. Can someone enlighten me?
"Then there is _private_with_ to make a package only visible inside the
private part of the specification." [1] There's an informative discussion
in the "Rationale for Ada 2005." [2]
[1]<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Ada_2005>
[2]<http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rat/html/Rat-1-3-3.html>
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John B. Matthews
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<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>
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2011-02-16 23:48 Private with -- what for? Rick
2011-02-17 1:22 ` John B. Matthews [this message]
2011-02-17 1:34 ` Adam Beneschan
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