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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: friend classes in ada95
Date: 2000/04/14
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"Steve Folly" <steve.folly@mail.com> writes:

> > package X.Y is
> >     -- Cannot see X's private part
> 
> Not true - according to the LRM (I forget which section off the top of my
> head) child package visibility rules are the same as if you had declared (in
> this case) Y inside X at the end of it's private part after all other
> declarations.

If you look up that section, you'll have trouble finding it.  ;-)

The visible part of a child cannot see the parent's private part,
unless it's a private child.

- Bob