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In the Hello World, you were introduced to the package Ada.Text_IO, and how to use it in order to perform I/O operations within your program. Packages can be further manipulated to do many different things. Renaming: To rename a package, you use the keyword renames in a package declaration, as such...

As a way of subdividing Ada programs, packages may have so-called children. These can be packages, too. A child package has a special privilege: it can see the declarations in the parent package's private part. One typical use of this special visibility is when forming a hierarchy of derived types ...