(j3.2006) Absurdity concerning the PROTECTED attribute.

[Malcolm Cohen]

>Should it be prohibited to confer the PROTECTED attribute upon an entity
>that is accessed by use association

It already is.

"The local identifier of an entity made accessible by a USE statement shall not 
appear in any other nonexecutable
16 statement that would cause any attribute (5.5) of the entity to be specified 
in the scoping unit that contains the
17 USE statement, except that it may appear in a PUBLIC or PRIVATE statement in 
the scoping unit of a module
18 and it may be given the ASYNCHRONOUS or VOLATILE attribute."

100% clear.

Cheers,
-- 
................................Malcolm Cohen, Nihon NAG, Tokyo.