Re: Idiomatic formatting for empty package

[AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>]

Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2017 16:34:51 UTC+2 schrieb Jeffrey R. Carter:
> On 10/10/2017 12:21 PM, AdaMagica wrote:
> > But those renamings don't clutter the user's namespace since the names may be
> > used for user-created packages: RM J.1(10), AARM A.2(4.a).
> 
> Yes, but I'd never use those names, since they'd confuse the reader, who would
> reasonably assume they were the renamings. So they're still effectively off limits.

Ha! This facility once redounded to my advantage when rehosting airborne Ada 83 code for a full scale flight simulator in Ada 95. Package Calendar had to be replaced by a simulated time calendar. Rather than searching the millions of lines of code and exchanging Calender by Sim_Calendar, I only had to declare
package Calendar renames Sim_Calendar;
(I know I was lucky because the airborne code used Ada 83 and I could use newer Ada generations.)