Re: Ada202X: Easy to use "UML private"-like components

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 23/06/2013 16:28, in article wccppvc26ef.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com,
"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
> No, that's not at all what I meant.  I meant that a package would
> come in three parts:
> 
>     package P is
>         ...
>     end P;
> 
>     package private P is -- Just making up syntax here.
>         ...
>     end P;
> 
>     package body P is
>         ...
>     end P;
> 
> Normally stored in 3 separate source files.  There would be no
> private part syntax like we currently have.
> 
> I'm not suggesting this is the best idea -- I'm just suggesting
> that it would fit in with the compilation model the Ada 83 designers
> had in mind.  I would ditch that model, thus making the above
> suggestion irrelevant.

That is exactly what Ichbiah's previous language, LIS, had:
IIRC interface, representation, and implementation parts as separate
compilation units.

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