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Date: 2005-01-01T10:30:38-05:00

danmcleran@hotmail.com writes:

> I understand your point about packages vs. tagged types. I still
> believe that it would be a good thing to have a mechanism to hide
> impelmentation detail from child packages. Otherwise, anyone could
> write a package as a child of another and expose a public interface to
> the outside world that could change the private area of its parent
> package.

Remember, the point of a good programming language is to help good
programmers write better programs, not to force bad programmers to
follow the rules.

-- 
-- Stephe