From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Mon Jun 23 11:17:20 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h5N9HKJY045752 for sc22wg5-domo; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:17:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from inf.rl.ac.uk (nfs7.inf.rl.ac.uk [130.246.72.7]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h5N9HDEc045747 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:17:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk) Received: from numerical.cc.rl.ac.uk (numerical [130.246.8.23]) by inf.rl.ac.uk (8.11.6+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id h5N9FGD00269 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:15:16 +0100 (BST) Received: from rl.ac.uk (jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk [130.246.9.202]) by numerical.cc.rl.ac.uk (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27821 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:26:02 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3EF6C6B6.2040801@rl.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 10:21:58 +0100 From: John Reid Reply-To: j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: WG5 Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2792) [Fwd: Modules TR] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk -------- Original Message -------- To: WG5 Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2792) [Fwd: Modules TR] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:27:58 -0700 From: Van Snyder In response to > >Essentially, it has the PRIVATE attribute, but this is not declared > >explicitly. Michael Ingrassia wrote: > When you put it that way ... it certainly makes it sound attractive to > require to give > it an explicit PRIVATE attribute. PRIVATE affects USE association. Nothing in a submodule is directly accessible by USE association. Therefore, there's no point to putting PRIVATE on anything. In a big complicated module, requiring PRIVATE on everything declared in its scoping unit would do nothing but earn the curses of the user community. -- Van Snyder | What fraction of Americans believe Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov | Wrestling is real and NASA is fake? Any alleged opinions are my own and have not been approved or disapproved by JPL, CalTech, NASA, Sean O'Keefe, George Bush, the Pope, or anybody else.