From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1a52c822fc0dbb23 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Anh Vo Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Rational for not making cursor tagged in Containers Date: 20 Apr 2007 19:53:26 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1177124006.792004.217120@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: <1176998738.656903.141250@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1177010938.200523.325290@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1a8y2vakorfhx.225uqh4hifpd$.dlg@40tude.net> <1177031884.096796.106370@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <1v9a0f.p9c.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1177075382.262926.247740@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.232.240.198 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1177124007 6733 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2007 02:53:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:53:27 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.2),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.232.240.198; posting-account=JVr7Xg0AAAAI3MbuARxMmvWLmA7qdJMx Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15183 Date: 2007-04-20T19:53:26-07:00 List-Id: On Apr 20, 9:02 am, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > Anh Vo a =E9crit :> On Apr 20, 4:59 am, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > >> Anh Vo a =E9crit :> I do not understand what other confusions do you r= efer to. Other > >>> advantage of prefix notation is that I do not have to fully qualify > >>> nor apply use clause. > >> And one advantage of use clause is that you don't have to use prefix > >> notation ;-) > > > It is true. However, using use clause does not fit advantage category. > > In addition, the side effect of using use clause, for most cases, > > leans toward disadvantage side :-( > > A common opinion, but far from being universal (although voiced louder > than the opposite). It is the quality, not quantiy, that counts. > For those of us who do not write Level-A software, use clauses increase > readability, while keeping precise control over name space by opening > visibility at the innermost level where it is needed. I have to disagree with "use clauses increase readability" no matter what kind of software written. Yes, it provides visibility so full qualification is not needed. > Of course, this assume that you use use clauses properly, and not after > each with clause! Certainly. AV