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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Need advice re package organization.
Date: 04 Aug 2003 15:52:04 -0400
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
> news:uu191kqqd.fsf@nasa.gov...
> > The C++ notions of public, protected, and private member functions do
> > not map one-to-one into Ada, but they map fairly well according to the
> > following scheme (data members below):
> >
> > C++         Ada
> > public      public part of package spec
> > protected   private part of package spec
> > private     package body
> 
> Thanks.

You're welcome. It's not often I get to provide a service like this :).

> It doesn't seem particularly valuable to me; the extra type(s)
> needed to achieve this are mildly annoying but hardly in the class
> of critical flaw. 

I agree. I think the C++ approach leads to more confusion than it is worth.


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-- Stephe