Re: Placement of pragma Import

[Michal Nowak <vinnie@inetia.pl>]

On 2002-12-08 at 18:44 Jeffrey Carter wrote:

>As far as I can see, it makes absolutely no difference. Things in the 
>private part are not visible to clients in the Ada sense, but clients 
>cannot refer to the pragmata even if they are visible. The human reader 
>can see the private part, so putting them there does not hide them in 
>any way.
>
>If you could put them in the body, that would hide them from the human 
>reader, who should only have to refer to the spec to learn what the 
>package does and how to use it. But you can't do that, so it seems to 
>make no difference at all.
>
>Perhaps putting them in the private part will signal to human readers 
>that the information is not needed to understand the package. That is 
>the only reason I can see to prefer one over the other.

Thank you. That sheds some light on the problem.

  - Michal

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