Re: Visibility problems with package instantiations.....

[Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:07:23 GMT, Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
wrote:

>Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
>> BTW, maybe a stupid idea, but what if we change file naming policy
>> allowing:
>> 
>>    package A.B is ...
>> 
>> to be named "b.ads" IFF that is placed in a subdirectory named "a" of
>> the directory containing "a.ads"?
>
>The naming of source files is a compiler issue, not a language issue; 
>the ARM is appropriately silent on the subject. You can take it up with 
>your compiler vendor, if you like (or make the changes yourself in GNAT).

That would be unwise. Naming conventions should be compatible across
different compilers. Otherwise, we would loose one of great Ada
advantages: portability. At least as end-user understands it. He takes
a project and with no or minimum efforts get it compiled under any Ada
compiler.

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Dmitry Kazakov
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