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On Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:18:02 PM UTC-5, sbelm...@gmail.com wrote:
>=20
> And for the love of all that is holy, remove null procedures, or at least=
 standardize a pragma to do so.  The fact that Ada automates the fudging an=
d faking of an operation that is not applicable for a type is anathema to e=
verything the language has stood for since 1983.  A procedure Do_Something =
that does not do something is the most awful, unabashed example of bad desi=
gn that could possibly exist....and the language has constructs to expedite=
 it?!

I thought stubs were an accepted software engineering/design practice...