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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Ada2005 temp solo child
Date: 13 Sep 2002 17:00:59 -0400
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Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

> Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:
> > But if you have a parentless child, why isn't the child then the parent?
> 
> because of a couple of practical aspects:
> o  hierarchical grouping (similar to ada.text_io instead of text_io)

That's what empty parent packages are for. It's only three lines of code!

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