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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: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:20:47 +0300
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AdaMagica wrote:

> On Thursday, July 24, 2014 6:21:40 PM UTC+2, Victor Porton wrote:
> 
>> package RDF.Raptor is
>>
>> end RDF.Raptor;
> 
> What do you gain with an empty package?

Empty packages are meant to facilitate hierarchy.

>> But on the other hand, things become more finely classified if I use
>> child packages.
> 
> That's OK, this is the purpose of child packages. But again, what do gain
> with an empty top package and having the world in a child, especially if
> every user has to with it?
> 
>> So, do you insist, that it should not be in a child library package?
> 
> No, I don't insist - after all, it's your code.

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