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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d84bea4ad7f9234a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-06 00:06:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rsm1.occa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JM Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Package Question [Newbie] Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 07:06:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.21.59.142 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rsm1.occa.home.com 994403179 24.21.59.142 (Fri, 06 Jul 2001 00:06:19 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 00:06:19 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9536 Date: 2001-07-06T07:06:19+00:00 List-Id: Hi, I'm still very green wrt to Ada but after looking at few tutorials a have a couple of quick questions/observations. My background is C++ so I'm grasping for commonalities. 1. It looks as though basically the package is a class? 2. And from a C++ point of view the package procedures are static functions that operate on references to the package? So basically 'this' doesn't exist? Thanks, Jason