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From: "Samuel T. Harris" <sam_harris@hso.link.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/01
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"Dr. Neil C. Audsley" wrote:
> 
> We have a lot of Ada source that "with"s and "use"s a lot of packages --
> to the extent that it is difficult and time-consuming to find out which
> package a procedure is actually from.
> Ideally, we would like to eliminate "use" clauses, necessitating the
> replacement of each procedure call X by PackageName.X instead.
> Is there a tool that does this?
> 

Rational Apex has a "complete" facility which fully expands
name of things, adds named notation. It can be used on
already written constructs (your case) or on a partitial
or even ambiguous call. If only partitial, it will fill in
any missing parameters using named notation and use a
[some_type_expression] as a filler for the missing actual
parameters. If ambigous, it open a window with a list of
possible candidates. You can "visit" each candidate to
determine which one you need. The problem with this
facility is that it used to work on a selection of
code text but now only works on one statement at a time.
Works good while supporting the writing of code but is
very clumsy to use to retro-format existing code.

As far as your general problem is concerned, if you audience
reading the code can do it on-line, then a solution is to
use one of the many tools which provide a similar "visit"
function. Apex, Emacs with ada-tags, or ada2html from
David Wheeler all come to mind.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Scientific and Technical Systems
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"