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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Header-only Ada libraries...
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 12:00:36 +0200
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On 2018-06-01 11:15 AM, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 05/31/2018 11:04 PM, Robert A Duff wrote:
>> "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."
> 
> No, the OP's use of "header" is like using the word "cheese" to mean 
> yogurt. There are similarities, but they're not the same thing.
> 
> The differences between package specifications and C header files are 
> far more significant than any similarities. Some of the worst Ada I've 
> seen treated pkg specs the way most C people treat header files: as 
> inconveniences they have to create to keep the compiler happy. Thinking 
> about any part of Ada in C terms is a recipe for disaster.

That reminds me a C code review I once made. It had all code placed in 
header files! (:-))

Considering recent Ada additions to have statements expressions to be 
placed in package specifications ... not yogurt, but Camembert already.

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