From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Header-only Ada libraries...
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 17:53:33 -0500
Date: 2018-05-31T17:53:33-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pepudq$sj9$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc36y7edvg.fsf@TheWorld.com
"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@TheWorld.com> wrote in message
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> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
>
>> Not a header in sight. Not surprising, since Ada doesn't have headers.
>
> That's like saying, "French people don't eat cheese."
>
> Of course, they have something called "fromage", but that's got
> nothing to do with the matter.
I tend to agree with Jeff on this one: Ada has packages, which are a named,
checked, compilation unit. C headers are just untamed (and unnamed, other
than the source name) conglomerations of code that could literally contain
anything - any checking or restrictions comes from the implementation.
They're rather different things, even if often used for the same purpose.
Randy.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-31 11:14 Header-only Ada libraries Alejandro R. Mosteo
2018-05-31 12:18 ` joakimds
2018-05-31 12:38 ` Egil H H
2018-05-31 13:58 ` joakimds
2018-05-31 12:55 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-05-31 13:34 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-05-31 13:35 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-05-31 21:04 ` Robert A Duff
2018-05-31 22:53 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2018-06-01 9:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-06-01 10:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-06-05 12:31 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
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