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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
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> "Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote in message
> news:mailman.8.1070543384.31149.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
> > > Then, do not you feel that packing everything in one directory is
> > > similar to packing all packages in one huge all_stuff.ada file?
> >
> > Since the Ada compiler treats compilation units in one file much
> > differently than compilation units in separate files, but cares not at
> > all about what directories things are in, these are very different
issues.
>
> That's a mis-feature of a particular Ada implementation, one that follows
> the "letter" of the standard but not the spirit. So far as I know, all
other


Note that it is incorrect to assume that only GNAT has this limitation. I
believe
GNAT and Rational Apex both require one one compilation unit per file. There
are probably
others as well.