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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: ada and gnat (mingw)
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 15:21:13 +0100
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On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 06:06:35 -0800 (PST), Hans Vlems wrote:

> This is not a real ADA language question and thus possibly off topic
> but don't be too hard on a newbie :)
> I want to use my own packages. Example:
> 
> package my_constants is
> 
>  cc_hyphen : constant character := '-';
>  cc_comma : constant character := ',';
>  cc_digit9   : constant character := '9';
> 
> end my_constants;
> 
> This file is stored as my_constants.adb (on a WIndows platform).

Should be my_constants.ads. *.adb is for bodies, *.ads for specifications.

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