Re: Private primitive operations available to entire package hierarchy. Can it be done?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Lucretia" <lucretia9@lycos.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I currently have a library where you have instances and these are not
> allocated with new (like GtkAda). So, I've found that the use of
> aliased is required in a fair few places. I'm wondering whether it
> would be better to follow the GtkAda style and allocate the objects
> using allocators. What do you lot think?

My two cents is that the types in question should be tagged (usually because
they're derived from controlled); if that's true, you don't need aliased to
be visible in the user code. (That's how Claw works). That might require a
thicker library than you have in mind, though.

                Randy.