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Subject: Re: Why .ads as well as .adb?
From: John Perry <john.perry@usm.edu>
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On Monday, June 3, 2019 at 1:51:33 PM UTC-5, Lucretia wrote:
> In Ada, I've written code which is organised like this:
> 
> src/blah.ads
> src/blah.adb
> src/linux/blah-separate.adb
> src/windows/blah-separate.adb
> src/meh.ads
> src/linux/meh.adb
> src/windows/meh.adb
> etc.

Someone else wrote something about this, though I can't find it now. I was filing that under "convenience" in my previous reply. However, this answer seems more thorough, so thank you for the elaboration.

john perry