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Subject: Re: organizing deep source trees with child packages
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:25:15 +0200
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Le Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:18:27 +0200, Ludovic Brenta  =

<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a =C3=A9crit:
> Directories are *not* a solution for these problems.  They do not
> represent dependencies or hide any information from the compiler.
This is not a matter of semantic, this is a matter of being handy for  =

human beings.

By the way, using overlong file names instead of directory, is not even =
 =

suggested by the ARM, this is just a GNAT convention. Using directory  =

would not break Ada semantic, you will just replace =E2=80=9C.=E2=80=9D =
by =E2=80=9C/=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9C\=E2=80=9D  =

instead of =E2=80=9C-=E2=80=9D. As to reply to someone previously on thi=
s thread, if this  =

the difference between Ada and Java was really just about using overlong=
  =

file name or directory to present files to the user, I would start  =

wondering a lot. Using directories would not turn Ada into Java.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D  [Ep=
igrams on  =

Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale University]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [Idem]
Java: Write once, Never revisit