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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Networks.Sockets hierarchy for standardization?
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"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei@online.no> writes:

> However I would re-arrange. I would make sockets the top level node
> and arrange everything around that (forget about the ada node; this
> is Ada.

If it's to be related to the standard it should start at Ada (like
Ada.Streams etc).

Someone else as adopted "Ada0Y" as the top level to avoid compiler
complaints about recompiling standard units.

> Anyway, I'm worried that the network programming might drown in a
> ocean of packages.

Better that than munging everything together so the concepts are
entangled. I dare say there's ahappy medium.