Re: Trivia: Ada packages are great!

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Olivier Henley" <olivier.henley@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f309284d-146d-46be-852a-256a895962b7@googlegroups.com...
>> Well, a class can't either. The equivalent of a class is a tagged type +
>> primitive subprograms declared in a package; but you can have more than
>> one tagged type in a package.
>
> The C++ class 'Curve' can exists directly inside the file curve.h, 
> therefore a clash can happen both on file name and as a type declaration, 
> doesn't it?
>
> I was really asking: Therefore an Ada type cannot 'dangle free' as a C++ 
> class can? (the C++ class 'is a user defined type')

Right. An Ada type cannot be a compilation unit, it has to be inside of some 
compilation unit. (Which are usually packages but don't have to be.)

                          Randy.