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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package?
Date: 2000/03/30
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Geoff Bull <geoff@research.canon.com.au> writes:

> Isn't it a little bit late to be arguing about this?
[notation for ".all"]

Only if you think Ada 95 is the final word in programming language
design.  ;-)

Of course I don't think anybody's going to change the syntax of Ada at
this point.  But I still find it fun to discuss language design issues,
and if the issues involve variations on Ada, they seem on-topic enough
to be posted here.  I understand that such discussions might be boring
to those who just want to *use* the language as it is.

- Bob