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"Maciej Sobczak" <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> Usually the body is initialized as a copy of the relevant parts of the
>> spec. GPS even has a menu command for this, which generates an .adb
>> file, with null subprogram bodies, from an .ads file.
>
> Isn't it a proof that tools are trying to fix the language problem?

An IDE for a language that doesn't separate a spec certainly needs to have a 
mode where you could only see the specification parts of a source unit. That 
certainly is proof of tools fixing a language problem. ;-)

Ergo, no language is going to be perfect; language design is a series of 
trade-offs, and one imagines that tools will fix things up for people that 
would rather have a different trade-off.

                                                    Randy.