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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:09:49 +0200
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Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne) schrieb:

> Finally, I think I will simply declare these unused fields in the
> public part, in order to be able to give them an initialization value,
> but I really do not like it to appears in the public part.

In case you are using current Ada, have you considered
making your type limited an use a "construtor function"?
http://www.adacore.com/2007/05/28/gem-3/