Re: HELP: renames and enum values

[John English <je@bton.ac.uk>]

Dale Stanbrough wrote:
> All i was attempting to say is that
> 
>    type blah renames bleh;
> 
> could be predicted to have the same semantics as a subtype
> declaration (this would be the "other way" of performing
> subtyping).
> 
> I know what beginners think of, because I had 8 years of
> teaching beginners. This is something that some of them
> thought of (but not many because most of them were introduced
> to subtypes long before renames!).

What's even less obvious is the way to rename enumeration literals:

 function Enum_Literal return Enum_Type renames Other_Enum_Literal;

Now, that *really* confuses them, and none of them would ever be
able to guess it without being told!

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