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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: allocators for classwide types?
Date: 2000/01/06
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Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:

>    function Get (Package_1 : in Package_1.Class;
>                  F2 : in Package_2.Class
>                 ) return Descriptor;

This is illegal.  The parameter Package_1 hides the package Package_1,
so you can't say "Package_1.Class" in the declaration of the parameter.

If the error message was confusing, then maybe that's a bug, but
certainly the compiler should give *some* error message.

- Bob