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"Mats Karlssohn" <mats@mida.se> wrote in message
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: But this actually gives me an idea, my data table could be separate,
: right ? That would render the output from the tool so small that I
: actually could generate the whole source file, so that no handediting
: is needed. I'll need to investigate this.

This is exactly how we do it - when we have this situation, we try to put
the auto-generated info (and *only( the auto-generated info) in a separate
package. This allows us to do updates with minimal impact to the rest of the
system. We do this in Ada83; you might want to look at some of the packaging
options (e.g. child packages) to make it even more convienient.