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John R. Strohm wrote:
> The same thing can occur in Ada.  An overt change in one specification may
> propagate through a chain of apparently-unchanged descendants, producing
> hidden but very real semantic changes in each of them, and eventually
> producing a very visible change in the final descendant.

You're not listening. The complaint was that some Ada systems recompiled
dependents when a file was compiled, even if the source code had not
changed. You keep telling me that changes can ncessitate recompilation.
I know that. Ada knows that. Ada specifies such dependencies on changes
very carefully.