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From: blakemor@software.org (Alex Blakemore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: File name conventions for Ada units
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Date: 3 Oct 90 17:00:25 GMT
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In article <2152@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
> Coming from the VMS world I find this strange. The normal file type for Ada
> files is .ADA, and if you use it you have to tell that to the
> compiler, but if you prefer .FOR you can do so.


You mean if you follow the .Ada convention, you DON'T have to tell
the compiler. I agree enforced file name suffixes are unreasonable.
Even better, some systems (e.g. Rational) don't view source as files
- you edit the actual library units.  This problem never arises. 

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