Re: Possible Ada deficiency?

[danmcleran@hotmail.com]

>I've no idea what you're replying to here,

What I'm replying to is the argument that additional visibility
restrictions aren't warranted because anyone can change the code to
change the visibility. That seems like a pretty silly argument. If one
takes this to the logical extreme, what's the point of having any
information hiding capabilities at all? Couldn't someone always just
change the code and change the visibility? Of course they could.

>but note that the point of
>the visibility rules is documentation

I don't buy this at all. I don't believe that the sole reason for
visibility rules is documentation. There's obviously an intent to
provide some information hiding and separation of interface from
implementation.