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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: using an Ada.Container as a private type
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:25:35 -0400
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Graham <graham.stark@virtual-worlds.biz> writes:

> Good question. The intention was not to derive from Map at all: I
> simply wanted to keep the fact that it was implemented as a Map
> private. Is there a better way of doing that,...

You could say:

    type Payment_Stream is
        record
            M : Payment_Stream_Package.Map;
        end record;

which might be better, depending on what you want.

>... or is keeping it private
> overdesign?

No.

- Bob