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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Possible Ada deficiency?
Date: 1 Jan 2005 11:58:12 -0600
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In article <1104594390.142290.12210@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, danmcleran@hotmail.com writes:
> I'm not trying to promote C++'s private. I don't believe that this
> would be the way to go. For one thing, I don't like the idea of friends
> (or any other component) having access to private data. Although I have
> used this technique myself, I feel like it is a trick one can pull out
> when they didn't think ahead during the design phase.
> 
> What I would like to have in Ada is very simple, a way to hide a data
> type's internal representation from child packages. I didn't even
> consider hiding procedure(s) and/or function(s), because of your point
> about putting them into the package body.

If you want to hide the information, why are you making it a child package ?
To me the major reason for a child package is to share the information.