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From: Wes Groleau <wwgrol@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing
Date: 2000/03/01
Date: 2000-03-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38BD80CD.4462065@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 89jls5$vgp$1@nnrp1.deja.com

> [Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Unbounded_String is] actually exhibit A 
> for the kind of thing I'm complaining about. How
> do the authors of that package know that I have a system where its
> appropriate to perform "use"s? 

Or why do they assume you don't work in a shop that 
labels "use" a mortal sin?

These shops exist, and though I disagree with their
attitude, I think it was inappropriate for the 9X designers
to force them to choose between their religion 
and readability.

(Or to force employees of such a shop to choose between
the boss's rules and readability.)

Revision suggestion (yes, I know this is the wrong address): 
We're stuck with these redundant names, since some are already 
in use.  But next revision, packages like unbounded could, via
'renames,' provide alternate names that won't look stupid 
in an anti-use shop.




  reply	other threads:[~2000-03-01  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-29  0:00 'with'ing and 'use'ing Roger Hoyle
2000-02-29  0:00 ` xl
2000-02-29  0:00   ` Jeffrey Carter
2000-02-29  0:00     ` xl
2000-03-01  0:00   ` Roger Hoyle
2000-02-29  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-01  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-01  0:00     ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-01  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-01  0:00         ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-01  0:00           ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2000-03-02  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-29  0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-29  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-29  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-01  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-29  0:00 ` Jeffrey Carter
2000-02-29  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-01  0:00     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-02  0:00       ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-02  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-02  0:00           ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-02  0:00             ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-02  0:00               ` David Starner
2000-03-03  0:00                 ` Jeff Carter
2000-03-03  0:00                   ` David Starner
2000-03-04  0:00                     ` Simon Wright
2000-03-03  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-07  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
2000-03-03  0:00               ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-03  0:00               ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-03  0:00                 ` Scott Ingram
2000-03-04  0:00                   ` Simon Wright
2000-03-04  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-04  0:00                 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-03-06  0:00                 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-06  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-03  0:00       ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-04  0:00         ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-06  0:00         ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-06  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-07  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-08  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-11  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-06  0:00           ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-06  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-06  0:00               ` tmoran
2000-03-06  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-07  0:00               ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-07  0:00               ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-07  0:00             ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-06  0:00           ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-07  0:00             ` Stuart Palin
2000-03-08  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-09  0:00                 ` Stuart Palin
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