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From: "Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: HELP: renames and enum values
Date: 2000/04/10
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> In article <38EE494D.DDB9CE9@mindspring.com>,
>   Al Johnston <sofeise@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > What I really want here is a rename of a data type,
> > which doesn't seem to be available in ada...
> 
> subtype x is y;
> 
> why isn't that good enough for renaming purposes????
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> Before you buy.

It really doesn't rename the type.
Enumeration literals are not available from
the subtype.

When I do a package rename, I can reference
all the package content from the renamed
package.

So subtyping is related, but not
the same, as renaming.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"