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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: Should be in the root package or its child?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:02 +0300
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Victor Porton wrote:

> I am writing thick (object oriented) bindings for Raptor RDF Syntax
> Library (libraptor2).
> 
> Should I put World_Type (used by almost every program which uses my
> library) into the root package of my library or into some its child
> package?
> 
> I think that it depends on the "size" (number of primitive routines,
> roughly saying) associated with World_Type. If it is small, I should keep
> it in the root package, and if it is big to "allocate" a new subunit.
> 
> Other criteria or other opinions?

Some more entities are associated with World_Type:

Flag_Type (an enumeration)
Flag_And_Value (a record)
type Flags_Array is array(Integer range <>) of Flag_And_Value;

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org