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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: some trivial questions?
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> Also why should
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>    with A.B.C.D;
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> imply
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>    with A, A.B, A.B.C;

One would rather it didn't, but the "visibility holes" that would result 
caused so many semantic problems that the Ada 9x team punted. If this had 
been designed into Ada from the beginning rather than being "bolted-on" in 
Ada 95, perhaps the result would have been different.

                                                Randy.