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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Need advice re package organization.
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"Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> writes:

> "Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:3F299920.9070603@attbi.com...
> > So the advantage of supplying the inquiry functions is that you can
> > later change the data layout, add new components, change
> > representations, or even make some values which were originally explicit
> > virtual.  I think a much better solution to your problem is a tool that
> > automatically generates the inquiry functions from the type declaration.
> >   Sounds like a good candidate for adding to the Emacs ada-mode.
> 
> Or a type builder wizard in GPS! ;-)

The core tool is probably best written in Ada using ASIS; it would be
somewhat similar to Auto_Text_IO. Emacs ada-mode and GPS could provide
user interfaces to the tool, but it would really need to be run as
part of the build process (from a makefile).

Hmm. That would imply that the inquiry functions where in a child
package; no problem if they don't need to be dispatching.

-- 
-- Stephe