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-Thread: 103376,182c0df39337eeca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps82.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Sender: blaak@BLIGHT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Wide Character Problem in Ada.Numerics References: <1177363740.965003.247270@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <462daae8$1@news.post.ch> <1177432510.964311.114370@r3g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1177609437.376996.161050@n35g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <1177688477.802262.165950@t39g2000prd.googlegroups.com> From: Ray Blaak Message-ID: Organization: The Transcend X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:43:21 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 154.20.94.243 X-Trace: edtnps82 1177692201 154.20.94.243 (Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:43:21 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:43:21 MDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15359 Date: 2007-04-27T16:43:21+00:00 List-Id: Adam Beneschan writes: > Even so, I believe that I'd want to compile a specification that I > wrote before trying to WITH it, just to make sure there are no errors. If I recall correctly, GNAT uses a source based model for its package library, in that the "library interface" files for package specs are simply the sources themselves. This means that package specs are always loaded/compiled on the fly whenever they are WITH'd. This turns out to have all sorts of advantages and simplifications. I don't know if GNAT is still doing this. There should still be a smarter way to handle source encodings however. XML files have a starting