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Subject: Re: Why .ads as well as .adb?
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> Usually the body is initialized as a copy of the relevant parts of the 
> spec. GPS even has a menu command for this, which generates an .adb 
> file, with null subprogram bodies, from an .ads file.

Isn't it a proof that tools are trying to fix the language problem?

> Hmm. The same copy-paste applies to C (header files vs .c files).

I have never said C is any better in this regard.

The discussion started with the observation that some languages manage not to have this separation at all. So we are not comparing Ada to C (superiority of bracketing styles being another subthread), we are comparing Ada/C with say Java or Python.

> If your point is only that most present-day compilers are (internally) 
> multi-pass, that is true, but I don't see the relevance.

The relevance is that the argument about the difficulty the compiler might have when parsing interdependent files that have no separate specs is now not relevant. :-)

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com