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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Real Time IO routines
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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:49:35 +0200
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:15:15 GMT, anon wrote:

> Plus, the "Ada.Real_Time" package uses:
> 
>    type Time is new Duration;
> 
> which is in private section.

The standard defines the private section of as:

private
   ... -- not specified by the language
end Ada.Real_Time;

See ARM D.7.

To make the program dependant on whatever private parts of library packages
is an even worse idea than just converting Time to Duration. The latter is
just semantically wrong, but the former is wrong methodologically.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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