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From: "Clueless" <chris@dont.spam.me>
Subject: Re: Pre-Elaboration clarification.
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In article <tuomu32t6sb9@corp.supernews.com>, "Matthew Heaney"
<mheaney@on2.com> wrote:

> "Clueless" <chris@dont.spam.me> wrote in message
> news:YAyF7.232247$K6.111187950@news2...
>> In my Ada spec file, I have the declaration...
>>
>> type Int_Data is array(1..Argument_Count) of Integer;
> 
> Don't do it this way.  Just declare an unconstrained array type:
> 
> type Integer_Array is array (Positive range <>) of Integer;
> 
> The spec that declares the Integer_Array type shouldn't depend on
> package Command_Line.  This is unnecessary coupling between specs.
> 
> I'll be talking about this sort of thing at next year's Ada Europe
> conference in Austria.  (Assuming the committee accepts my tutorial
> proposal.)
> 
> 

Are there any basic rules of thumb that an "Intermediate" level
programmer(as I was declared by my CS teacher) should follow in Ada as
regards data types and spec files?
I've made a BIG point of avoiding unecessary coupling as you pointed out.
As I'm not writing very "large" programs in Ada yet, I havent really run
into any problems with Data types and elaboration. Is there anything that
I should be practicing regularly, which might be peculiar to Ada95, that
would help me avoid problems once I get into developing "larger" pieces
of software?

McDoobie
chris@dont.spam.me