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On 04/25/2012 02:30 PM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
>
> And you have to modify and respecify the package each time you want to extend
> it? The child package way is more modular.

Ada emphasizes ease of reading over ease of writing (this is and always has been 
an explicit design goal stated at the beginning of the ARM); programming by 
extension (and your comment) emphasizes ease of writing over ease of reading. 
This is why I've always objected to including programming-by-extension features 
in Ada.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Ada has made you lazy and careless. You can write programs in C that
are just as safe by the simple application of super-human diligence."
E. Robert Tisdale
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