Re: decomposing large packages

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

mario.blunk.gplus@gmail.com writes:

> Now procedure n must be visible from inside package P. How can I
> accomplish that ? I played with child units but did not get what I
> wanted. The parent P unit must see the procedures and functions of the
> child units P.S1, P.S2, ... but the compiler complains that procedure
> n is not defined for type thing in P.

P's body can see P.S1:

   package P.S1 is
      procedure N (Value : Thing) is null; -- save typing :-)
   end P.S1;

   with P.S1;
   package body P is
      procedure M (Value : Thing) is
      begin
         S1.N (Value);
      end M;
   end P;