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Subject: Re: CPAN style Ada repository
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:45:07 +0100
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Le Fri, 29 Nov 2013 23:53:35 +0100, Dennis Lee Bieber  =

<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> a =C3=A9crit:

> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:17:24 +0000, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
> declaimed the following:
>
>> Felix Krause <usenet@flyx.org> writes:
>>
>>> The major problem is that from what I know, Ada code is not
>>> very portable between compilers (even the .ads/.adb naming
>>> convention is GNAT-specific).
>>
>> The only other compiler I have (recent) experience of is ObjectAda,
>> which was quite happy to import .ads/.adb files into its library.
>>
> 	Not sure how difficult it would be to go /to/ Rational Ada -- but tha=
t
> compiler uses an even less clear naming than GNAT...
>
> 	*.1.ada =3D> *.ads
> 	*.2.ada =3D> *.adb

It's clear to me at least: that's probably to list specifications before=
  =

bodies=E2=80=A6 which makes sense for Ada.

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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.=
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