From: Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net>
Subject: Re: is everything child of Standard Package in Ada?
Date: 1999/03/02
Date: 1999-03-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bh1po$1ibb@news3.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7bgu62$l31@drn.newsguy.com
nabbasi@pacbell.net wrote:
> hi,
>
> is it implicit that every package in Ada is a 'child' of Standard package?
>
> i.e. is package Ada a child of Standard package for example?
Yes, see ARM 10.1.1(1).
However, it is a special case. You don't need to say, for instance,
"Standard.Ada.Text_Io" and indeed you can't (at least on the compiler
I'm using at the moment).
> (reason I ask, is that RM on page 259, shows Standard package as one level
> over everything else.
Page numbers can vary between formats, it's often better to show section
and paragraph numbers, in this case: A(2).
Best,
Sam Mize
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1999-03-02 0:00 is everything child of Standard Package in Ada? nabbasi
1999-03-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Samuel Mize [this message]
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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