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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is proving...educational
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 20:28:45 +0200
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Le Mon, 22 Jul 2013 03:28:32 +0200, Alan Jump <alan.jump@gmail.com> a  =

=C3=A9crit:

> The other unexpected (but, on reflection, totally logical) curveball i=
s  =

> 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 specification=
s  =

> 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 t=
he  =

answer. Of cause you can use child packages with GNAT :-p


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=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
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