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From: Nick Roberts <nick.roberts@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Possible Ada deficiency?
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 03:56:59 +0000
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

> ...
> The way to solve this problem is to figure out how to put more stuff into
> the body, not inventing new kinds of parts.

Yes. This suggests allowing a private type to be completed in the body. 

> It has been claimed (correctly, IMHO) that the private part originally was
> a hack to allow compilers to be written more easily.

I've heard the same, and I think it might be correct. There's no real
technical barrier to types being completed in the body, other than it might
cause some compilers to have to (effectly) make an extra pass. (Correct?)

-- 
Nick Roberts