Re: is everything child of Standard Package in Ada?

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>]

Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net> writes:

> However, it is a special case.  You don't need to say, for instance,
> "Standard.Ada.Text_Io" and indeed you can't (at least on the compiler
> I'm using at the moment).

This is true only in with_clauses; you must say "with Ada.Text_IO;" and
not "with Standard.Ada.Text_IO;".  In normal code, you can say things
like:

    Standard.Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("Hello");

If you declare a library package called Standard, like this:

    package Standard is
    end Standard;

you will get a child of *the* Standard also called Standard;
that is, Standard.Standard.  That would be a pretty silly
thing to do, but it's legal.

- Bob
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