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On 06/03/18 15:36, Mehdi Saada wrote:
>>  From a compiler writer POV I may understand it for the same reasons we
>> have the private part in the spec.
> How come ? Why should the compiler handle those functions differently than normal functions whose body is forbidden to be anywhere else than in the package body ?
> 

I suppose they simplify distribution of specs + object code with better 
inlining, but that's just a guess.