From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,4200259190b16e16
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-03 00:45:32 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-atanamir.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail
From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Visibility problems with package instantiations.....
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:49:25 +0100
Message-ID: <q78rsvkd0mb6sh33i6ma5m79mslhjthkek@4ax.com>
References: <95234e08.0311270742.631b1228@posting.google.com>
 <349csv0udb5k0kuk0q99d7tm7fh5leuefu@4ax.com>
 <95234e08.0311280323.7a5bb870@posting.google.com>
 <n8hesvkm0cad6p3sbvkrahbuiv9ap61gr0@4ax.com>
 <95234e08.0311302345.4f9e235b@posting.google.com>
 <b9vlsvgtq4mno30llumrfs7up8dv10hg9e@4ax.com> <u3cc47b54.fsf@nasa.gov>
 <kekosvsivd0hsi6vedmc4894a07ru0a18d@4ax.com>
 <fF3zb.24728$sb4.22238@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-atanamir.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.116)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1070441131 70136952 212.79.194.116 ([77047])
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3087
Date: 2003-12-03T09:49:25+01:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

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.

--
Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de