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From: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: how to import a package
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>>>>> "markww" == markww  <markww@gmail.com> writes:

    markww> I thought that the following line:

    markww>     package Person_List in new P (T => PERSON_REC)

    markww> is just instantiating one instance of the package called
    markww> Person_List.  So the line:

    markww>     Start : Person_List.Node_Ptr;

In Ada, a package is not a type (unlike in, say Java where a class is
a type and a package).

So the above defines Start to of type Node_Ptr as found in the
Person_List package.

    markww> doesn't make sense to me since it looks like 'Start' is
    markww> being defined as pointing to Person_List.Node_Ptr, when I
    markww> thought the right side of the colon must be a data type.

Correct.
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>