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Packages allow the specification of groups of logically related entities. In their simplest form packages can represent pools of common data and type declarations. More generally, packages can be used to describe groups of related entities such as types, objects, and subprograms, whose inner workings are concealed and protected from their users.
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Brauer, W. et al. (1980). Packages. In: Brauer, W., et al. The Programming Language Ada. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 106. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-10693-6_7
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