Re: Trivia: Ada packages are great!

[Olivier Henley <olivier.henley@gmail.com>]

> In C++ you can "reopen" the namespace by just introducing a new file, without editing existing files related to that namespace. This allows to decouple logical and physical aspects of namespace designs.

I agree that this is convenient. Is convenience in 'architectural elaboration' a good thing? I don't think so. The body of works exist to testify of the utter mess it can produce over the years.  

But 'extension' through child package, present in the filename, is 'self documenting' in Ada. C++ namespace can be anywhere regardless of file naming... often very confusing about what is tied to what. At directory level you cannot figure out the design layout. In Ada you can get pretty much the whole picture just from that inspection. This is huge for reasoning.

Maybe enforcing the explicit merging of designs in Ada is a very good thing in the long run. It forces the team members to take decisions early and dedicate to a real solution, one that they will live with. I know this could be very heavy at time and I can easily figure why some probably ditched Ada just because of such lack of convenience --> They just want to code.