From: "James A. Squire" <m193884@CSEHP3.MDC.COM>
Subject: Re: Subunits of packages vs. subunits of subprograms
Date: 1996/07/15
Date: 1996-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31EA9976.5CD6@csehp3.mdc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DuDx0J.F5q.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
> You realize of course that subunits are, in many instances, obsoleted by
> the notion of child units. Most, but not all, uses of subunits in Ada 83
> are more comfortably replaced by the use of child units in Ada 95.
> So to a certain extent subunits are being provided for backwards
> compatibility.
.... assuming that the only separates one uses are packages. Some of us
use separates for subprograms within a package, for the reasons implied
by David Morton in his last posting on this thread, and so for us, child
units certainly do not obsolete subunits "in many instances."
--
James Squire
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-11 0:00 Subunits of packages vs. subunits of subprograms Tucker Taft
1996-07-11 0:00 ` David Morton
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-13 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-15 0:00 ` James A. Squire [this message]
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24 0:00 ` JamesS1889
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