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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Suffix _T for types found good
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:38:04 +0200
Date: 2008-08-20T17:38:07+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1xqborx4epefc.11z7g8cmj4nlp.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37793f2b-2cc6-4aba-856e-cbfe503872a5@v16g2000prc.googlegroups.com

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:25:12 -0700 (PDT), Adam Beneschan wrote:

> Yeah, earlier on in this thread I was thinking about whether it would
> have been possible for Ada to have separate namespaces for types and
> other non-type entities without ambiguities.  Attributes make this
> impossible.

Nope. In all cases the type and variable names can be overloaded. Any
difference between them is not lexical.

> Offhand, I'm not sure whether context is always
> sufficient to distinguish types from non-types, other than with
> attributes.

That is not required by Ada design, which permits hiding and clashes of
names.

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



  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-20 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-06 14:58 Suffix _T for types found good amado.alves
2008-08-06 16:34 ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-08-06 17:23   ` amado.alves
2008-08-06 21:57     ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-08-06 22:14       ` amado.alves
2008-08-12 14:00     ` Simon Wright
2008-08-07  1:23   ` Steve
2008-08-07 15:10     ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-08-07 17:04       ` Ray Blaak
2008-08-07 17:19         ` amado.alves
2008-08-07 18:44           ` amado.alves
2008-08-07 19:37             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-08-08 13:46               ` Steve
2008-08-08 16:40                 ` Ray Blaak
2008-08-08 20:27                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-08-19 18:05         ` Martin
2008-08-19 23:04           ` Ray Blaak
2008-08-20  0:13             ` Gary Scott
2008-08-20  7:42             ` What is a Contract? (was: Suffix _T for types found good) Georg Bauhaus
2008-08-20 16:19               ` Ray Blaak
2008-08-20  8:52             ` Suffix _T for types found good Martin
2008-08-20  2:01           ` Steve
2008-08-20 11:59             ` Stephen Leake
2008-08-20 14:25               ` Adam Beneschan
2008-08-20 15:38                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2008-08-20 20:37                   ` Adam Beneschan
2008-08-21  1:46                     ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-08-21  9:47                       ` Stephen Leake
2008-08-21  9:49                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-08-21  9:44                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-08-22  4:12                     ` Randy Brukardt
2008-08-22  4:12                     ` Randy Brukardt
2008-08-20 15:46               ` Gary Scott
2008-08-21  9:48                 ` Stephen Leake
2008-08-21 13:53               ` amado.alves
2008-08-21 15:30                 ` Gary Scott
2008-08-20 11:53           ` Stephen Leake
2008-08-20 12:12             ` Martin
2008-08-20 19:37             ` Simon Wright
2008-08-21  9:44               ` Stephen Leake
2008-08-07  3:05   ` Randy Brukardt
2008-08-07  6:56     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-08-06 17:18 ` Niklas Holsti
2008-08-06 17:57   ` amado.alves
2008-08-06 18:43     ` Niklas Holsti
2008-08-06 19:36       ` amado.alves
2008-08-06 19:11 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-08-06 19:16   ` amado.alves
2008-08-06 19:47     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-08-06 20:06     ` Pascal Obry
2008-08-06 22:07       ` amado.alves
2008-08-06 23:11         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-08-06 23:25           ` amado.alves
2008-08-07  7:16         ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-08-07  8:51           ` amado.alves
2008-08-07 10:10             ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-08-07 11:32               ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-08-07 12:37               ` amado.alves
2008-08-07 16:51             ` Ray Blaak
2008-08-07 17:01           ` Ray Blaak
2008-08-07 19:27             ` Adam Beneschan
2008-08-07 22:15               ` Ray Blaak
2008-08-07 22:17             ` Ray Blaak
2008-08-07 19:25           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-08-07 12:12 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-08-07 12:30   ` amado.alves
2008-08-07 12:51   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-08-07 15:37     ` amado.alves
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