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From: "Norman H. Cohen" <ncohen@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Frowining upon with clauses (was:Re: Environment Variables)
Date: 1997/01/27
Date: 1997-01-27T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32ECE7F8.35B@watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5c1nf9$d3q@ultranews.duc.auburn.edu


John M. Greer wrote:

> On an unrelated note (and this is a classroom question, but it's not
> doing my homework for me), my professor commented that using WITH, though
> common in Ada-83, is frowned upon by the industry in Ada 95.  Any
> specific reason for that? 

"Frowned upon" seems a bit overgeneral.  Certainly there are packages
that are most appropriately written as child packages in Ada 95, and in
Ada 83 such packages would have had to been written as independent
packages gain access to the facilities of the "parent package" through a
with clause.
 
-- 
Norman H. Cohen
mailto:ncohen@watson.ibm.com
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/n/ncohen




  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-01-27  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-01-21  0:00 Environment Variables John M. Greer
1997-01-24  0:00 ` Mike Bishop
1997-01-24  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-01-25  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-25  0:00 ` Doug Smith
1997-01-27  0:00 ` David Emery
1997-01-27  0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
1997-02-08  0:00   ` Frowining upon with clauses (was:Re: Environment Variables) Robert Dewar
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