Re: Trivia: Ada packages are great!

[Olivier Henley <olivier.henley@gmail.com>]

> Except that it is not enforced by the language. It is a (still not 
> obligatory!) convention used with the GNAT compiler, which is the convention 
> that I appreciate, but it is not the achievement of Ada as the language.

Oh, did not know that. Will I ever touch another compiler than GNAT?

> I have seen a relatively large Ada project (several thousand files), where for > historical reasons file names have been forced to be 8 characters[*], which 
> obviously did not have anything to do with package names that they specified 
> or implemented. Reasoning in such a mess is just impossible.

Wow ok. I feel the pain.

> [*] See the GNAT standard package files, too. Do you know the purpose of file > that has name a-tiinau.ads? Or s-atacco.ads? Can you figure out the hierarchy > from such names? There are almost 700 such files in my installation, all in a > single directory.

Did not know either.