Re: Visibility problems with package instantiations.....

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> What I said is that GNAT follows the *letter* of the standard, not the
> *spirit*. If you have to do something that the compiler and/or make tool
> does not recognize and do automatically if needed, then it doesn't really
> support it in my book. That's because you can't edit the source file with
> the multiple units and use the make tool to update your program. That means
> that you either modify the split files (at which point you no longer have
> multiple units in your file), or you have to rememeber to run gnatchop by
> hand (and the failure to do so means a lot of wasted time figuring out why
> something doesn't work - something I've spent a lot of time doing with
> Claw).

I added a minor mode to Emacs that automatically runs gnatchop when
you save the file.

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Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.