From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c019ad9cc913bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-13 01:51:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.nacamar.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!not-for-mail From: Peter Hermann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada2005 temp solo child (was: Re: The Dreaded "Missing Subunits" Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: References: <1b585154.0209121449.ef12609@posting.google.com> <3D819EE7.3A69E5EB@praxis-cs.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de X-Trace: news.uni-stuttgart.de 1031907084 32226 129.69.118.32 (13 Sep 2002 08:51:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:51:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980117 (UNIX) (IRIX/6.5 (IP22)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28912 Date: 2002-09-13T08:51:24+00:00 List-Id: Peter Amey wrote: > grandparent-parent-unit_name.adb for subunits. In this context I have a question to language lawyers: Since it may be practical to temporarily have package children without having the corresponding parent, why should it be prohibited by the standard to allow this? Likewise e.g. ada.text_io could turn to orphan since package ada may easily be missing. While developing an application, I have e.g. a parent.child but not yet a parent package, which may or may come later. Now my compiler forces me to have the parent. I would prefer the ada standard would force the compiler to allow parentless children. Did I ignore some important aspect? -- --Peter Hermann(49)0711-685-3611 fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de --Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen --http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/ --Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)