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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada202X: Easy to use "UML private"-like components
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 19:43:47 -0400
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Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> That is exactly what Ichbiah's previous language, LIS, had:
> IIRC interface, representation, and implementation parts as separate
> compilation units.

Interesting.  I think maybe I've given my rant before, and maybe you
have replied with the above information before, but I've forgotten
it.  I don't know LIS at all, and I'm too lazy to google it right
now -- maybe one of these days.

But why, oh why, then, didn't Icbiah include that obvious idea in
Ada 83?!

- Bob