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From: Robb.Nebbe@di.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe)
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Subject: Re: An observation of Ada (may offend)
Date: 29 Mar 1995 08:31:54 GMT
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In article <EACHUS.95Mar28143036@spectre.mitre.org>, eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
|> 
|>    Now you just voluteered for the maintenance job, and it is hard to
|> get good maintainers, wonderful.  When you go to add your new child
|> unit, how do you know that it is not replacing another child of the
|> same name, which you were unaware of?  I, and many others, like the
|> documentation you need to be in the logical place--in the source.

This still sounds like a version control problem rather than a language
problem. I would hope that version control systems for Ada will be able
to enforce things like requiring child packages to be in the same
library as the parent.

Robb Nebbe