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Subject: Re: Possible Ada deficiency?
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I'm not trying to promote C++'s private. I don't believe that this
would be the way to go. For one thing, I don't like the idea of friends
(or any other component) having access to private data. Although I have
used this technique myself, I feel like it is a trick one can pull out
when they didn't think ahead during the design phase.

What I would like to have in Ada is very simple, a way to hide a data
type's internal representation from child packages. I didn't even
consider hiding procedure(s) and/or function(s), because of your point
about putting them into the package body.

If my type consists of a record, which contains stuff I don't want
anyone else messing with, there's no way to prevent someone from
writing a child package and having full access to the internals of my
type!