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Subject: Re: Possible Ada deficiency?
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Yes, but it seems like such an obvious place where bad things could
happen. It seems like only goodness can be bought by having the ability
to hide a type's impelmentation from child packages. I don't see any
downside to providing this ability. That way, one could force a child
package to use the interface provided by the public area of its parent
and prevent the child from manipulating the internal representation of
a type.