Re: gnatmake error I don't understand

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message 
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> IMHO the language would be better without library subprograms.
> The main procedure should be inside a package (but as you point
> out, that's unfortunately illegal).

The very early versions of Janus/Ada required a package to be the main -- as 
there were no library-level subprograms at the time. But we just used the 
elaboration of that package to be a main -- we just force it to elaborate 
last; no way to use a subprogram inside of the package as a main (short of 
calling it in the begin part of the package). Janus/Ada still has an option 
to allow that sorrt of main (dunno if it actually works, I don't think 
anyone has used it for decades).

                                Randy.