In article , doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) wrote: >>The Eiffel camp seems to think that dependency order is a limitation, but >>it was a deliberate decision by Ada's designers. As an Ada programmer, I >>haven't found it to be a limitation at all; in fact, I find it quite >>helpful, exactly as the designers imagined it would be. > >Perhaps it is helpful, but it is also a limitation. Perhaps a >helpful limitation, but a limitation nonetheless. This is not unlike saying that "strong typing" is a helpful limitation, but a limitation nonetheless. Forward declarations just confuse me, but your mileage may vary. >>To get random signatures put text files into a folder called �Random >>Signatures� into your Preferences folder. Oops! I recently installed Navigator 4.03, and it installed some extra stuff (grrrrr...) that overrode the behavior of what was already working. I guess they call that a "feature," eh? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant (818) 985-1271