From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Karel Th�nissen Subject: Re: Use use type? (Was Re: Safety-critical development in Ada and Eiffel) Date: 1997/07/26 Message-ID: <33D9DC59.4F0C@hello.confusion.nl>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 259012018 References: <199707251337.PAA20933@basement.replay.com> Organization: Hello Technologies, Netherlands Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Anonymous wrote: > > > >The choice of names. "With" should be "use" or "uses" (the latter is > > > >from UCSD Pascal, I think). "Use" should be I-don't-know-what, but > > > >something other than "use". Then, when I say, "Package X uses package > > > >Y", you wouldn't be confused as to whether I mean "Package X makes use > > > >of package Y (i.e. X is a client of Y)", versus "There's a use_clause on > > > >package X saying 'use Y'". And we avoid the verbing of "with", as in > > > >"Package X withs package Y." (or is it "with's"?) which sounds horrible > > > >in English. "To with" ain't a verb, in English. ;-) > > > use X; view X; > > uses X; localize X; -- ?? (as in "local phone call") > To avoid new resoived woids: > use X; access X; > use X; in X; -- Pretend this code is "in" X > use X; raise X; -- "raise" the visibility of X > With a new reserved word: > use X; open X; use X; tutoie X; -- pays tribute to Jean Ichbiah use X; dutche x; -- for the Germans ('Dutchen' is to be on informal terms wso) use X; intimate X; -- Groeten, Karel Th�nissen Member of the international brigade against Anglo-American cultural imperalistic denial of the diacritical marks 8-) -- my e-mail address is scrambled to confuse spammers -- remove the confusion to obtain my true address