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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Convention for naming of packages
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:03:05 +0100
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:12:09 +0100, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Le Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:53:56 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a �crit:
> 
>> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:19:08 +0100, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:
>>
>>> Le Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:53:16 +0100, J-P. Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> a  
>>> �crit:
>>>> Nothing prevents you from
>>>> qualifying with a package name inside a use clause for that package!
>>>
>>> And conversely, nothing prevents one to Used a package designed for "use
>>> unfriendly".
>>
>> Conflicting names do.
> Of course, but nothing is absolute. Conflict can be all solved with prefix  
> or renaming.

1. If you could meaningfully rename it afterwards, why would not you name
it properly at the original declaration point?

2. Renaming is sufficiently broken in Ada, e.g. types cannot be renamed;
often renaming is not renaming but an equivalent object declaration instead
etc.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de