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From: Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net>
Subject: Re: is everything child of Standard Package in Ada?
Date: 1999/03/02
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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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