Re: Trivia: Ada packages are great!

[G. B. <nonlegitur@nmhp.invalid>]

Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:

> Separate subprograms in Ada are not helping when integrating code from a
> different codebase, because they do not reduce the number of files that
> need to be modified (and therefore versioned) when code is moved between
> projects. Contrary to this, C and C++ allow such moves with minimal
> number of file modifications - in particular, no existing file needs to
> be modified in order to add a new function to the existing namespace.

Adding to a namespace in a separate file I need to modify a meta-MANIFEST
file that lists what’s in a namespace. I then only need to consult the
manifest if I need to ensure the presence of a namespace’s content in
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