Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign help!!]

["John G. Volan" <johnvolan@sprintmail.com>]

Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> 
> In article <dewar.863324701@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> 
>    Robert Dewar said:
> 
>    > In my programming the name clash that I most often come across
>    > is something like
>    >     Parent : constant xxx := Parent (K);
> 
>    My reaction in those cases is to diagnose a misplaced use clause,

That's not the only way this could happen. We might have a subsystem of
child packages.  A subprogram that has widespread utility within the
subsystem might be declared high up in a root package, and a code
snippet like this could be located down in a child package.  Visibility
to the contents of the root package comes for free, without any need for
a use-clause.  Would such an arrangement be "misplaced"?  I wouldn't
think so, I'd view it as a conscious design decision.

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