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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: Encaspulation: What to export
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:34:39 +0200
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> 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.

I parse not a string but an RDF tree. It is similar to convert AST (abstract 
syntax tree) to another format. RDF is similar to an AST but more abstract.

So it is NOT a deserialization operation in Ada sense.

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org