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In article <1054565992.652258@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> Yes, but who is the ancestor? You always have to look for that.
> 
> That's fine. I'm given to understand that Ada is meant to be
> for the convenience of the reader, not the writer. It may be
> more work for you to look up the ancestor, but then the reader
> of the code will know exactly where to look for the code.

But Ada is also designed to catch errors made by the writer,
and if a new parent is inserted the procedure in question will
will be skipping a generation when that would be quite undesired
in most cases.