Re: Ichbiah's Letter___

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In article <EMERY.93Apr15143405@goldfinger.mitre.org>, emery@goldfinger.mitre.o
rg (David Emery) writes:
> The biggest advantage of the trailing underscore is that it now makes
> the absolutely horrible VMS naming conventions ambiguous.  Is
> 	FOO_.ada 
> the package specification for package FOO, or the package body for
> package FOO_ ?
> 
> 				dave


There goes upward/downward compilations!  I guess Digital will have to change
the standard now... 

How about FOO_$.ADA to represent the specification and
          FOO_.ADA to represent the body?
 
Have you considered the problem with having procedure MYFOO being compiled
separately inside of FOO_ package.  The file would have to be FOO___MYFOO.ADA
(three underscores).

George

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