Re: Should be in the root package or its child?

[Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>]

AdaMagica wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 8:58:24 PM UTC+2, Victor Porton wrote:
>> 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 this answers your question. If it is so basic, it belongs into the
> root, irrespecitve of what you call the "size".
> 
>> 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.

But can you elaborate why?

I am writing Ada bindings for the Raptor C library.

The package RDF.Raptor is currently empty:

package RDF.Raptor is

end RDF.Raptor;

So a user is probably not meant to "with" this package, only its childs.

If I place World_Type into a child package RDF.Raptor.World, it requires 
user to type just one more level in "with" and "use". It is not a heavy 
burden.

But on the other hand, things become more finely classified if I use child 
packages.

So, do you insist, that it should not be in a child library package?

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org