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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: A non-primitive operation
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:44:41 +0200
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I want a function F which returns a tagged type NOT to be considered as a 
primitive operation of T.

Is there any other way for this, except to declare F in a separate package?

What about creating F in a subpackage? This way it could have access to full 
view of T if T is private (an awful hack?):

package X is

  type T is tagged private;

  package Sub is
    function F return T;
  end Sub;

end X;

Are there other ways?

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