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From: "Samuel T. Harris" <u61783@gsde.hou.us.ray.com>
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Subject: Re: Package name
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:06:19 -0500
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Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> That might work nicely in a number of spots. It would be A Good Thing if
> there were some way of doing it in a way that Ada guarantees you get the
> string you want. The external_tag may not produce a result you want on all
> systems.
> 

Use Ada.Tags.External_Name instead.
It is a precisely define content which is a string
representing the fully expanded name of the type.

One can easily strip off the last .identifier to
get the fully expanded name of the enclosing declaration.

Another method is to establish a code pattern where
each declarative scope defines a known string constant
of the same name and use ASIS to auto-insert the string
declarations into code.

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