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 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!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Possible Ada deficiency? References: <1104516913.718856.94090@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1105290947.422412.195950@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1105327217.641306.80180@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:06:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.189.49.103 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1105402017 63.189.49.103 (Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:06:57 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:06:57 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7632 Date: 2005-01-11T00:06:57+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > By the way, there's one question you haven't answered. You desire to > prevent children from accessing parent-private stuff. OK, that's a > legitimate concern. But if you have a package X.Y that does not want to > access private-X stuff, then why do you want it to be a child in the > first place? Another way to phrase this question is, "Why does package Ada have children, since it has no private part?" Obviously, there are uses for children that do not access their parents' private stuff. -- Jeff Carter "That was the most fun I've ever had without laughing." Annie Hall 43