Re: using an Ada.Container as a private type

Robert A Duff <bobduff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> Graham <graham.stark@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
>> Good question. The intention was not to derive from Map at all: I
>> simply wanted to keep the fact that it was implemented as a Map
>> private. Is there a better way of doing that,...
>
> You could say:
>
>     type Payment_Stream is
>         record
>             M : Payment_Stream_Package.Map;
>         end record;
>
> which might be better, depending on what you want.

You could also, for example, include a mutex in the record for locking
in the presence of concurrency.