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From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: Package Instances???
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> But my purpose isn't to implement a type, it's to find a C++ analogue
> for Ada packages. C++ namespaces are useless for anything except what
> the name implies, namely establishing a namespace.

Well, if you don't need a type, then you really do want an Ada package.
Clearly the C++ analogue is a namespace.

package P is
  procedure Op;
  I : Integer;
end P;

namespace N
{
   void f();
   extern int i;
}

In Ada, you have P.Op and P.I, and in C++ you have N::f() and N::i.  What's
the problem?

(Note that in C++ you could use a class, and declare f() and i as static
members, but you said you didn't want a type.)