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,c2f62556e56c9683 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing Date: 2000/03/01 Message-ID: <38BD80CD.4462065@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 591914663 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <89h5lh$70r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <89j5h5$j0j$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <89jdfu$ok4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <89jk9g$u3b$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <89jls5$vgp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@icg.raytheon.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 951943319 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 01 Mar 2000 14:41:59 CST) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 14:41:59 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > [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.