From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b8b8a54001adc4d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: danmcleran@hotmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Possible Ada deficiency? Date: 9 Jan 2005 19:18:52 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1105327132.335673.73950@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <1104516913.718856.94090@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1105290947.422412.195950@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.156.150.115 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1105327151 11294 127.0.0.1 (10 Jan 2005 03:19:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 03:19:11 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=172.156.150.115; posting-account=LSix6gsAAACmBFWMCbh6syCaua0lawvj Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7598 Date: 2005-01-09T19:18:52-08:00 List-Id: I don't think it needs to be this complicated an issue. The only mechanism I'm proposing is that a parent package can choose to hide detail(s) from child packages. There would be 3 areas of visibilty: public, private, & concealed.