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Matthew Heaney wrote:
> Yes.  An Ada package is analogous to a C++ namespace, not a class.

Except that in Ada, a package can be used as a parameter for a
generic instantiation, but in C++ a namespace cannot be used as
a template argument. Given that C++ classes can have arbitrary
things defined in them (types, static functions, constants, etc.)
considering them as an analogue of Ada packages is not wrong.