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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: ada and gnat (mingw)
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On 2012-12-04, Hans Vlems <hvlems@freenet.de> wrote:
> This is not a real ADA language question and thus possibly off topic
> but don't be too hard on a newbie :)
> I want to use my own packages. Example:
>
> package my_constants is
>
>  cc_hyphen : constant character := '-';
>  cc_comma : constant character := ',';
>  cc_digit9   : constant character := '9';
>
> end my_constants;
>
> This file is stored as my_constants.adb (on a WIndows platform).
> gnatmake my_constants.adb results in:
> gnatmake: my_constants.adb:1:08: keyword "body" expected here [see
> file name]
>
> Inserting the reserverd word body after package on line 1 doesn't
> help...
> What am I doing wrong and where can I find information on how to drive
> this compiler?
> Hans
>
> PS
> Apologies for the OT post

Not OT, IMHO.

With GNAT, the package specification goes into a .ads file; the package
body goes into a .adb file.

(This assumes you really are defining a specification above. :-))

Simon.

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