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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Victor Porton Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Encaspulation: What to export Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:35:55 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: edFHTOfx8phAphItWrZ8cQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: KNode/4.14.10 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49198 Date: 2017-11-27T22:35:55+02:00 List-Id: 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. > -- Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org