Re: GNAT GPL is proving...educational

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Mon, 22 Jul 2013 03:28:32 +0200, Alan Jump <alan.jump@gmail.com> a  
écrit:

> The other unexpected (but, on reflection, totally logical) curveball is  
> that GNAT, and Ada in general, really doesn't like monolithic program  
> files...I would have simply blamed GNAT, but the same problem occurred  
> when trying to load the example source code through AdaGIDE, so it's  
> clearly a shift in thinking now required by Ada. Package specifications  
> get their own .ads file, everything else goes in .adb files.

That's a common complain from people coming from Pascal. But that's not  
Ada, that's GNAT. Nothing in the RM requires the specification and the  
body belongs to separate files (it does neither requires Ada sources to be  
stored in files, by the way, it just requires Ada source to be text made  
of characters).

About the other issue with files names, Niklas Holsti already gave you the  
answer. Of cause you can use child packages with GNAT :-p


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