Re: Other Ada Standards (was Re: SIGada Conference)

[prichtmyer@yahoo.com (Peter Richtmyer)]

Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message news:<wccwu8ije3d.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>...
> 
> That would defeat the whole purpose of with_clauses.  The point of
> with's is that you can see a summary of the interconnections between
> compilation units all in one spot, right up front.
> 

I wish this were true! Just look in one place.

However, take a not-too-unusual situation of a package spec and body 
with a few "separate" routines, and perhaps some child packages 
with a few separates each. "Good practice" says put the with's 
down where needed, not all in the pkg spec. So in a child pkg 
separate, you need to look in up to 5 different files to see 
what might be used (with'd) by the separate. For the entire package, 
you need to look at all the files to see what all the "interconnections"
are.

Or do you advocate putting them all in the spec?

(I remember an engineer took over a pgm of mine once. First thing she did 
was move all the with's into the package specs. Then she complained
to me that my program would not compile and she had to spend alot 
of time redesigning and recoding it.) (It was already working).

regards,
Peter