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From: Nick Roberts <nick.roberts@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: visibility of private incomplete types
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:16:24 +0100
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Randy Brukardt wrote:

>>>is GNAT correct in compiling the following program
>>>without complaints? (There is a complaint if the
>>>function in the body of P is uncommented.)
>>
>>No - according to ObjectAda v 7.2.2
> 
> Right, because the outer private part doesn't have visibility on the
> private part of Inner. Only the body of Inner should be able to see
> TI.

Indeed.

Also, would I be right in saying that, in Ada 95, it is not permitted
for a type declared (by an incomplete type declaration) in the private
part of a package to be completed in the package's body?

Is this going to be permitted in Ada 2005?

-- 
Nick Roberts