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Preben Randhol:

[...]
> No, I wouldn't actually for these reasons:
> 
>    1. It doesn't become more readable.
>    2. It doesn't make it easier to change a with-ed package to a
>       with and use (or only use) package.
>    3. It isn't a feature which will imporve the language IMHO.
>    4. I find the way I wrote the wit and use more readable and easier to
>       modify (cut'n'paste, for example)
>    5. It would totally break with Ada 95 (if use implicitly with a unit)

If you mean that an Ada 95 couldn't compile an Ada 0Y-with-"[with and ]use"
source, you are right. It is in the nature of improvements...
There are still good Ada 83 compilers around that are unable to compile
the least Ada 95 code with "Ada.Text_IO" etc., and we can live with it.

>    6. Reason as stated in my signature.
> 
> Now I'll continue my ada-suit for vim so I can share it to other vim
> users as soon as possible.
> 
> I'll make the with use macro now ;-)

The writeability problem is small (since you can make a macro) compared
to the readability and maintanability issue of the current syntax.
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