From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,487310d7e1471eac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: parent package referring to child References: <1191997397.865251.322480@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1191997397.865251.322480@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8-I; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1192035988 12.201.97.213 (Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:06:28 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:06:28 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:06:29 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2412 Date: 2007-10-10T17:06:29+00:00 List-Id: eliben wrote: > > I have a package FOO that encapsulates a large part of the system. Now > I need to add to it a public type (that should be visible by external > code) with a lot of enumerated names (hundreds). I don't want to fill > the spec of FOO with this huge type, so I thought it would be a good > idea to create a subpackage: FOO.Names, and place the type there. FOO seems the logical place to declare the type. Its size seems immaterial. -- Jeff Carter "We use a large, vibrating egg." Annie Hall 44