Re: Visibility problems with package instantiations.....

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote in message
> news:mailman.8.1070543384.31149.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
> > > Then, do not you feel that packing everything in one directory is
> > > similar to packing all packages in one huge all_stuff.ada file?
> >
> > Since the Ada compiler treats compilation units in one file much
> > differently than compilation units in separate files, but cares not at
> > all about what directories things are in, these are very different issues.
> 
> That's a mis-feature of a particular Ada implementation, one that follows
> the "letter" of the standard but not the spirit. So far as I know, all other
> Ada compilers directly support compiling files containing multiple units.

Well, yes, GNAT refuses to compile a file containing multiple units.
But even in other systems, the re-compilation dependencies get
confused when there are more than one unit in a file (which is why
GNAT refuses to do it); it is that effect I was talking about.

> But the basic point should be, do what makes most sense to you and your
> project, and get tools that support that well. The more flexible the tools,
> the better (unless, like me, you have your own personal development system
> that you fix/upgrade when its annoying. But that's not the norm!).

I fix Emacs when it doesn't do what I want. I haven't gotten around to
fixing the compiler; to much else to do :).

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-- Stephe