Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end)

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Jan 16, 9:07 pm, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> In “8 Packages and Visibility Rules” :
>
>     > Do not with two times the same unit, always use the
>     > deepest child unit to with. For example do not write:
>     >            with Ada.Strings;
>     >            with Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
>     > but the equivalent form:
>                  with Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
>
>     I always do the opposite. I feel it is clearer if I
>     refer to the parent unit. If I don't, I do not withed
>     the parent unit (i.e. I state something about usage in
>     the withed declarations).

My preference is to say "with Ada.Strings;", even if I am also
with'ing Ada.Strings.Unbounded, if (and only if) I am referring to
something actually declared in Ada.Strings (such as
Ada.Strings.Direction).  I think that makes things clearer.  I can't
really imagine why anyone would think it's a bad idea to say "with
Ada.Strings;" in that case.

Then again, I've never had much use for style guides, especially when
they're enforced.  I think I do a good job of being sensitive to
others who might read my source, and writing in a way that makes it
easier on them; sometimes strict rules can actually prevent me from
doing the best job of this, especially since the one who writes the
rules may not have thought about every possible circumstance.

                                     -- Adam