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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: status of Ada STL?
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"SteveD" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> writes:

> If you look at type definitions you have:
> 
>   type mytype is
>     record
>      ...
>     end record;

I wish it were "end My_Type", instead of "end record",
especially when the record contains 10 lines of components,
and 30 lines of comments.

> I would much prefer:
>   type mytype is abstract tagged
>     record
>        null;
>     end record
>     methods
>       procedure MyProc1( value : mytype );
>     end methods;

Not an entirely unreasonable complaint, but I don't think the above
would work very well.  At least it raises questions:  Where would you
put the class-wide ops?  Where would you put the exceptions and generics
that are "related" to mytype but not primitive?

Anyway, the *usual* practise is to have one type (or one "major" type)
per package, so "end Package_Name" serves the purpose well enough.

- Bob