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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Can't export object of private type
Date: 1999/03/03
Date: 1999-03-03T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc678ia2kk.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F7w5zn.G7z@syd.csa.com.au

nospam@thanks.com.au (Don Harrison) writes:

> Since Planet_Id is exported, anyone can declare an object of that type. 
> We want to ensure there is only a single instance shared by all clients.

If you want a package to have control over object allocation,
export a type with unknown discriminants.  Then clients can't
create objects.  The package itself is the only thing that can
create objects, and so it can place whatever restrictions it
likes, in your case, just one.

- Bob
-- 
Change robert to bob to get my real email address.  Sorry.




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-03-03  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 128+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <F7JoCB.JxB@syd.csa.com.au>
1999-02-24  0:00 ` Can't export object of private type Don Harrison
1999-02-24  0:00   ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-24  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1999-02-25  0:00     ` Don Harrison
1999-02-25  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26  0:00         ` Don Harrison
1999-02-26  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26  0:00             ` bourguet
1999-02-26  0:00               ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-02-27  0:00                 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-27  0:00                 ` Simon Wright
1999-02-28  0:00               ` dewar
1999-03-01  0:00                 ` bourguet
1999-02-26  0:00             ` dennison
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Stephen Leake
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Don Harrison
1999-03-01  0:00               ` robert_dewar
1999-03-03  0:00                 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-03  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-27  0:00         ` Brian Rogoff
1999-03-01  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25  0:00       ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-26  0:00         ` Don Harrison
1999-02-27  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Don Harrison
1999-03-02  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Don Harrison
1999-03-01  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-01  0:00                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01  0:00                 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-02  0:00                   ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-03  0:00                     ` Don Harrison
1999-03-03  0:00                       ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-04  0:00                         ` Don Harrison
1999-03-07  0:00                     ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-03  0:00               ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1999-03-04  0:00                 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-04  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-28  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-01  0:00           ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-01  0:00           ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-02  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-25  0:00       ` fraser
1999-02-26  0:00         ` Don Harrison
     [not found]           ` <7b6nqe$75m$1@remarq.com>
1999-02-26  0:00             ` fraser
1999-02-27  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26  0:00           ` fraser
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Don Harrison
1999-03-01  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-26  0:00           ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-01  0:00             ` Don Harrison
1999-03-01  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-02  0:00               ` fraser
1999-03-03  0:00                 ` Don Harrison
1999-02-28  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-28  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-28  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-01  0:00       ` Tom Moran
1999-03-02  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-02  0:00           ` Tom Moran
1999-03-02  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-02  0:00               ` Tom Moran
1999-03-02  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-02  0:00                   ` nabbasi
1999-03-02  0:00                     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-03  0:00                   ` Don Harrison
1999-03-03  0:00                     ` Single Extension; Polymorphic Arrays Nick Roberts
1999-03-03  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-08  0:00                         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-08  0:00                           ` Tucker Taft
     [not found]                             ` <m3ogm40wav.fsf@mheaney.ni.net>
1999-03-08  0:00                               ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-08  0:00                               ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-08  0:00                                 ` dennison
1999-03-09  0:00                                 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-08  0:00                           ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-03  0:00               ` Can't export object of private type Don Harrison
1999-03-03  0:00                 ` Don Harrison
1999-03-03  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-04  0:00                     ` Don Harrison
1999-03-04  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-04  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05  0:00                           ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-05  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-05  0:00                           ` Abstract Subprograms of Untagged Types Nick Roberts
1999-03-05  0:00                             ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-05  0:00                               ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-06  0:00                               ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05  0:00                             ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04  0:00                       ` Can't export object of private type Nick Roberts
1999-03-08  0:00                         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-09  0:00                         ` Don Harrison
1999-03-09  0:00                           ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-09  0:00                             ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-10  0:00                             ` Don Harrison
1999-03-10  0:00                               ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-04  0:00                       ` fraser
1999-03-09  0:00                         ` Don Harrison
1999-03-08  0:00                     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-08  0:00                       ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-08  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-10  0:00                   ` Don Harrison
1999-03-10  0:00                     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-10  0:00                       ` dennison
1999-03-10  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-10  0:00                           ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10  0:00                           ` dennison
1999-03-11  0:00                             ` dennison
1999-03-10  0:00                         ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10  0:00                           ` dennison
1999-03-10  0:00                             ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10  0:00                               ` dennison
1999-03-11  0:00                                 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-11  0:00                                   ` Don Harrison
1999-03-12  0:00                                     ` robert_dewar
1999-03-11  0:00                                 ` bill
1999-03-11  0:00                                   ` Scott Ingram
1999-03-11  0:00                                     ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-11  0:00                                   ` dennison
1999-03-12  0:00                                   ` dewar
1999-03-11  0:00                                 ` dennison
1999-03-11  0:00                           ` Don Harrison
1999-03-03  0:00           ` Don Harrison
1999-02-28  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-24  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1999-02-28  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
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