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> If you have a body with many subprograms, how can you tell which ones
> are intended to be exported, and which ones are private to the body?

By annotating them appropriately? Keywords "private" or "export" or similar are commonly used for this purpose.

Please note that your question could also refer to the concept of DLLs, which is not directly addressed by Ada (nor C++). Yet, somehow we do manage to solve this problem.

> I don't agree. Yes, Ada is more verbose, but it tells you clearly what
> is a declaration, and what are executable statements.

I agree with the answer that Keith already wrote for this.

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