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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Inheritance with Ada types
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:08:40 -0500
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Bryan <brobinson.eng@gmail.com> writes:

> package Parent is
>   type Parent is abstract tagged private;

Using the same name for the package and the type will lead to confusion.
A common convention is to use a plural for the package, and a singular
for the main type in that package.  "Parent" is a fairly meaningless
name, but in a real program you'd have something like:

    package Widgets is
        type Widget is ...

- Bob