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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Idiomatic formatting for empty package
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 18:36:17 -0500
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Out of curosity, why you do need to write an empty package? I don't think 
I've encountered one outside of ACATS tests and incomplete examples.

For a package whose contents are TBD, I would document that fact with a 
comment (thus the package would not appear empty):

package MT is
     -- %%% Temp: TBD declarations to go here.
end MT;

(Note: The "%%% Temp" is a convention that I use so I can check easily that 
all of the incomplete code places have been finished before I start 
testing.)

                                   Randy.