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Subject: Re: Idiomatic formatting for empty package
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On 10/06/2017 01:36 AM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 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.

I frequently structure projects as

package Project is
    pragma Pure;
end Project;

package Project.Model is ...
package Project.UI is ...
procedure Project.Program is ...

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Jeff Carter
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