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From: "Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada2005 temp solo child (was: Re: The Dreaded "Missing Subunits"
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> While developing an application, I have e.g. a parent.child
> but not yet a parent package, which may or may come later.
> Now my compiler forces me to have the parent.
> I would prefer the ada standard would force the compiler
> to allow parentless children.
> Did I ignore some important aspect?

I do not know, but the request seems silly to me. Why is it so disturbing to create a 
dummy parent, which is still empty. It has to be created anyway eventually, so 
why not just now? If there will never be a parent, why have the hierarchy at 
all?