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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:46:48 -0400
From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@gmail.com>
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Date: 2008-08-20T21:46:48-04:00
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Adam Beneschan wrote:

>    XYZ : Some_Type;
>    type XYZ is array (1..10) of Some_Other_Type;
>    An_Object : XYZ;
> 
> In this last line, it's clear that only the type declaration could be
> meant by XYZ.

I'm not sure allowing such a thing, even if were possible, would be a
good idea. Types and instances are conceptually quite different and
allowing them to reuse the same name (in the same scope) sounds
confusing. After all, a set of integers is different than any particular
integer and I don't want to loose sight of that when I'm looking at my code.

Peter