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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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SIMON Claude <claude.simon@equipement.gouv.fr> writes:

> Does a "limited access procedure" could be THE solution ?

Yes.  Two solutions were proposed during the Ada 9X design.
That was one of them.  I think the other involved some sort
of run-time accessibility-level checking (like access parameters).

Neither feature made it into the language.

- Bob