Re: Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks

[emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)]

It's my experience in porting software that the context clause ("with
list") is one of the key parts of Ada portability.  It establishes
quite clearly what any given unit depends on.  

This observation is one of the major reasons that POSIX/Ada is defined
as a set of packages, rather than one huge package.  This way, if you
see "with POSIX_Files, POSIX_IO;", you know there's a dependence on
the file system, but NOT on processes and signal handling.

				dave
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