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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cd94a799504cebd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-16 19:48:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sjcppf01.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!news-west.rr.com!lsnws01.we.mediaone.net!typhoon.san.rr.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BCCF185.A4512DDA@san.rr.com> From: Darren New Organization: Boxes! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Small question concerning use References: <9qi8ls$a2g1@news.cis.okstate.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:48:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 1003286935 66.75.151.160 (Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:48:55 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:48:55 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14773 Date: 2001-10-17T02:48:55+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > OTOH, Ada.Streams.Stream_Element_Count was clearly designed with the > intention of "use Ada.Streams", in which case Stream_Element_Count > is very readable, while Ada.Streams.Stream_Element_Count is ugly. Right. My thought was that "always avoid use - it leads to ambiguities" is too sweeping a statement in the face of this sort of naming convention. Hmm... The hardest part of Ada for me seems to be naming conventions, at least so far. Is this good or bad? :-) -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. Who is this Dr. Ibid anyway, and how does he know so much?