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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Encaspulation: What to export
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:00:40 +0100
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On 2017-11-27 20:25, Victor Porton wrote:
> I am writing free software containing a kinda parser, which converts from
> external representation into the internal format of my Ada program.

What you describe is not a parser, it a deserialization operation.

> What should be in the public package interface and what in package body
> only?

Serialization/deserialization are public operations of the type (and the 
medium type, e.g. stream type). If the type is public so must be the 
operation. If private, the operation cannot be made public anyway.

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