Recently, in the process of illustrating Ada 95 child packages in a course
I
teach, I implemented the Fractions.Comparisons package from N. Cohen's Ada
as a Second Language, 2nd ed text. In the test program, I withed the
Fractions and Fractions.Comparisons packages, and then specified the use
type Fractions.Fraction_Type for direct visibility of the Fractions
package
operators. I was surprised that the Fractions.Comparisons package
operators
were not directly visible (that is, I was not able to test for A < B). To
make the example work, I added the use Fractions.Comparisons statement.
So, my questions are: 1) Why didn't the use type work for the
Fractions.Comparisons operators, and 2) how do I make the operators
directly
visible?
While this is an academic exercise, actual projects using this combination
of parent and child packages have experienced similar problems.
Thanks,
John Cupak
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