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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-29 08:08:08 PST Path: news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!skates!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: 29 Sep 2003 10:58:30 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (skates.gsfc.nasa.gov) Message-ID: References: <3F74366B.7050303@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: anarres.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 1064847685 943 128.183.235.92 (29 Sep 2003 15:01:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.gsfc.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Sep 2003 15:01:25 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:166 Date: 2003-09-29T15:01:25+00:00 List-Id: chris writes: > Stephen Leake wrote: > > chris writes: > > > >>Marin David Condic wrote: > >> > >>>It seems that you get more than inheritance with tagged records and > >>>packages. What did you want? > >> > >>"Protected" members, without using child packages. > > The way you get "protected" members in Ada is to use child packages. > > Why don't you like child packages? > > I didn't say that. I just wonder if it's always possible to use a > child package. Is it? If so then I take it back. Well, "always" is a very inclusive term. But yes, in general, any package can have a child package. Whether that gets you exactly what you want, I can't say. -- -- Stephe