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From: "Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Typing in Ada
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:27:23 +0100
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"James Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@att.net> wrote in message
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> ...
> The Ada difference is that all incomplete types must be
> completed in the same compilation unit.

In fact, this restriction is likely be lifted (in a very restricted way ;-)
in the new revision of the Ada language. It has proved to be too
inconvenient.

Whether implementations will join up the dots at (traditional) link time, or
at some pre-linking stage instead, is yet to be seen. I think the latter is
more likely.

-- 
Nick Roberts