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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: File name conventions for Ada units
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Date: 4 Oct 90 12:10:39 GMT
References: <589@censun1.UUCP> <2190@sparko.gwu.edu> <2152@enea.se> <1682@software.software.org>
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In article <1682@software.software.org> blakemore@software.org (Alex Blakemore) writes:

>Even better, some systems (e.g. Rational) don't view source as files
>- you edit the actual library units.  This problem never arises. 

And this, surely, is the right answer.  An Ada compiler does not
operate on files, but on compilation units.  The association
between those units and entities in some other universe of
discourse is not the proper concern of the compiler, and the
knowledge, or partial knowledge, of the designations of those
entities ought not to be bound into it.