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From: danmcleran@hotmail.com
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Subject: Re: Possible Ada deficiency?
Date: 1 Jan 2005 07:53:51 -0800
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Well, here you're using the preprocessor to pull this off, not the
language. Anyway, I'm not trying to convince anyone that C++'s private
is the answer or somehow superior. The point I'm trying to make is that
private in Ada is not as private as I would like. I'm really surprised
that there is not a way to a type's representaion from child packages.
In my opinion, the language would benefit from providing the ability to
hide a types internal representation from the outside world, including
child packages.