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On 07/05/2018 08:35 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message
> news:phj901$3a0$1@dont-email.me...
>> On 07/04/2018 06:24 PM, Alejandro R. Mosteo wrote:
>>> On 04/07/2018 17:52, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yet Ada allows having a library of packages, like DEC Ada had. Your
>>>
>>> Ah, I seem to remember that the Meridian Ada compiler in my first year at
>>> university also had something like that.
>>
>> Ada 83 required it.
> 
> Not really, it's more accurate to say that no one had tried to figure out an
> alternative with the needed semantics. That didn't happen until the GNAT
> people invented source-based translation for Ada (since copied by some other
> compilers).

ARM-83 10.4. The Program Library: "[A] library file containing information on 
the compilation units of the program library must be maintained by the compiler 
or compiling environment."

-- 
Jeff Carter
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of conversing easily with those I have never seen before."
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