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On 6/3/19 9:29 PM, John Perry wrote:
> On Monday, June 3, 2019 at 12:00:24 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>>
>> First, let me point out that your specification is GNAT-specific, but your body
>> is compiler-independent. I'm going to presume that the generation of the spec
>> from the body was faulty.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean, but you & Nicholas have made me aware that the premises of my question are not entirely well-founded, in that I'm basing them on my experience with gnat, since I don't really have access to another Ada compiler (to my knowledge). I do recall reading that gnat has a particular addition to the requirements that every file contain only one compilation unit, so spec & impl need to be in separate files.

I was jokingly pointing out that your Subject line (spec) refers to GNAT's 
default naming scheme, while the text of your post (body) was about general Ada 
features.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I fart in your general direction."
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