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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f792c51162ca0287 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Tucker Taft Subject: Re: Is system part of standard? Date: 1999/04/30 Message-ID: <3729AA8A.261C142A@averstar.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472675259 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: houdini.burl.averstar.com References: <37295ff2.2075172@news.geccs.gecm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) Burlington, MA USA Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Brian Orpin wrote: > > In response to a problem with a 3rd party tool a suggestion was that we > did not need to 'with' system but rather we could simply prefix > everything with Standard.System eg. > > Some_Address : Standard.System.Address; > > On Both our DEC Ada and Tartan Ada compilers this doesn't work. > > Should it or is the advice false? The advice is false. However, perhaps what they should have said is that *after* you "with" System, you may still need to refer to it via "Standard.System" if the name "System" by itself is hidden by something declared inside the current compilation unit. > ... The relevant sections of the LRM I > have found are 8.6 and the end of Annex C. Both these imply to me that > system is not part of standard but is, of course, predefined. > > -- > Brian Orpin **Reply to address is valid*** > Selfbuilding, and we're in; bath, shower, toilet what more do > you need? http://www.borpin.demon.co.uk/ -- -Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools) AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA