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From: Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch (Gautier)
Subject: Re: Can't use my ".ada" files with Gnat 3.09?
Date: 1997/07/22
Message-ID: <1997Jul22.092828.6130@news>#1/1
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Organization: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Reply-To: Remove_this.Gautier.deMontmollin@Maths.UniNe.CH
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-07-22T00:00:00+00:00
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(...)
> "Gcc recognizes the ada filename extensions .ads and .adb..."
> 
> followed later by :
> 
> Unless the extension of the filename is ".ads", ".adb", or ".ada"...
> 
> There is NOTHING in the documentation that clearly (and in plain
> English) states that you CAN'T use ".ada", or at least lists the 
> prerequisites needed if you DO use .ada...  At best if you read
> between the lines, you can imply this fact!

BTW, the usage of ".ada" could be an interesting new feature of GNAT
as the extension of files containing both specification and body of
a package, like with other compilers.

Gautier