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From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Trivia: Ada packages are great!
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 06:44:43 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2018-11-08T06:44:43-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <73b24492-2bc7-4943-b86e-87b73b21a8dc@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f57a37a4-9557-40d8-8f4f-1d97751fe4ea@googlegroups.com>

On Thursday, November 8, 2018 at 1:28:25 PM UTC+1, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> > Now, the discussion about files has overshadowed the initial point of this thread: in Ada, *everything* must be inside a unit (package, procedure or function) with a name, and *that* is an extremely useful feature compared to "flat" languages!
> 
> Not exactly. It is possible to write a program as a set of procedures that do not exist in any package (starting from the program entry procedure).

Re-read carefully my post: it's written "*everything* must be inside a unit (package, procedure or function)", not ""*everything* must be inside a package" :-).


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-08 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-02 21:11 Trivia: Ada packages are great! Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 10:39 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-05 12:39   ` Björn Lundin
2018-11-06  8:52     ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-06 13:02       ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-07  7:02         ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-07  8:55           ` G. B.
2018-11-07 12:40           ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-08 12:35             ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-08 13:12               ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-09  2:15               ` gautier_niouzes
2018-11-07  8:53       ` Björn Lundin
2018-11-07 10:56         ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-07 18:27           ` G. B.
2018-11-08 12:20             ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-09  5:45               ` G. B.
2018-11-09  8:24                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-09  9:03                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-11-12  6:33                   ` G. B.
2018-11-05 17:20   ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 17:56   ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 18:07     ` Simon Wright
2018-11-05 19:37       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-11-05 20:04         ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 20:12         ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 18:29     ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 20:03     ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 20:40     ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-08  4:46 ` gautier_niouzes
2018-11-08 12:28   ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-08 13:27     ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-08 14:44     ` gautier_niouzes [this message]
2018-11-08 15:01       ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-08 16:14         ` Simon Wright
2018-11-08 16:28           ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-11  6:49             ` Randy Brukardt
2018-11-11  7:01     ` Randy Brukardt
2018-11-11  7:01   ` Randy Brukardt
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