Re: Encaspulation: What to export

[Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>]

Victor Porton wrote:

> 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.

I fact RDF is a directed graph format.

I transform from this special kind of directed graphs (which I receive on 
input) into my internal program's format.

> So it is NOT a deserialization operation in Ada sense.
> 
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