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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Porting ADA source
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:41:39 +0100
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Peter C. Chapin wrote:
> I'm new to Ada so forgive me if I'm beating a dead horse here, but
> I'm not sure how this example solves the problem. If the Ada code is
> compiled in an environment where 'Cos' does not exist, won't the
> renaming declaration cause an error?

The example is for the case where "Cos" is defined but the code
uses "Cosine". For the environment where "Cosine" already exists
you don't need the renames - you can control which version at
build time.

This can hidden with some sort of wrapper package for both platforms.

Cheers

-- Martin