Re: Protected types and visibility of their internals

[Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>]

Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> Consider a protected type in some package:
>
> package P is
>    protected type PT is
>       procedure Foo;
>    private
>       X : Some_Type;
>    end PT;
> end P;
>
> The protected type has a component X of Some_Type, which is entirely
> the private business of the protected type.
>
> Where this type should be declared?

In a sibling private package:

private
package P.stuff is

    type Some_Type is ...;
end P.Stuff;

private with P.stuff;
package P is
   protected type PT is
      procedure Foo;
   private
      X : P.Stuff.Some_Type;
   end PT;
end P;

Hmm. Maybe that's not right, since P.Stuff is used in the private part
of a public type, not strictly in the private part of P. But it
_should_ be ok!

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-- Stephe