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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-07 21:10:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: mheaney@MHEANEYX200 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: <3F5B8084.5080705@attbi.com> From: Matthew Heaney Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 04:10:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.110.133.134 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1062994222 65.110.133.134 (Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:10:22 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:10:22 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42260 Date: 2003-09-08T04:10:22+00:00 List-Id: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes: > Well, let's put 2 and 2 together. If Mr. Rosen is correct, then after > Ada gets interfaces, the spec (.ads) files will be redundant and no > longer really needed. I'm just a simple-minded aerospace engineer. Am > I missing something here? You are conflating module and type. An Ada package spec is a module, which is just a namespace with some extra semantics. An interface specifies a set of operations for a type. Modules and types are othogonal language features. Adding interface types to Ada will not affect whether modules are necessary.