Re: The Dreaded "Missing Subunits"

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 08:03:23 +0200 (MET DST), Grein, Christoph wrote:
>> >> Besides don't you get the with-ing problem with .ada?
>> > 
>> > Why? It worked with Ada 83, why shouldn't it with Ada 95.
>> 
>> I don't know how the .ada works, but sometimes you have to with in the
>> .adb and not the .ads to avoid circular dependance. But I guess you can
>> put the withs after the spec and the compiler will recognice this?
> 
> This is a misconception. It's no language concern how you store Ada units. Whether you store specs and bodies in one file or separately does not affect the 
> semantics.
> 
> And you do not "with" .ads, .adb, or .ada _files_, you with Ada units.

I didn't say you did if you see above. I am wondering what makes it
different to with a package before the body of another package versus
before the spec of another package.

> 
> Having specs and bodies separate is ony a convention of some compiler vendors.

So as I said you put the with after the package spec and it will be ok
with the language (no circular dependance).

Preben