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Subject: Re: Trivia: Ada packages are great!
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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" :-).