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From: prichtmyer@yahoo.com (Peter Richtmyer)
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Subject: Re: Safe "use" directive
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porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton) wrote in message news:<3dcba716$0$305$bed64819@news.gradwell.net>...
> 
> Do you agree that it is a good rule?
>
I like it - or something very much like it that is easy enough
for coders to understand  :-)

Perhaps one "weakness" is that someone may later change the pkg that is
"use'd", so the rule is violated, but not know the effects.
 
> Can the current Ada stylistics checking tools enforce such a rule
> without too much effort?

I don't know. Are there any good and *free* Ada stylistics checking 
tools available?  Anybody?

thanks,
Peter