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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Pragma Inline and its Effects of Compilation Dependencies.
Date: 2000/03/23
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In article <8bd7oh$6sv$1@inputplus.demon.co.uk>,
  ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) wrote:
> Yes, I agree it seems great (having never used it).  Must have
> been strange at the time to go against the accepted wisdom and
> always refer back to all the sources.

Strange indeed :-)

The genesis of this idea was that Richard Stallman could not
believe that a language where the meaning of the program
depended on the order in which sources were compiled could
even vaguely be acceptable :-). We patiently explained that
the Ada RM required this, but he would not accept it, and
eventually we wouldn't accept it either, and the Ada 95
RM was reworded to make clear that this (acceptable)
interpretation of the Ada 83 RM is definitely legitimate :-)
When we explored this idea further, we found it had tremendous
advantages.

Robert Dewar


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