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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:48:51 +0200
From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Types,
 packages & objects : the good old naming conventions question
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Date: 2009-11-05T10:48:51+02:00
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> Consider it this way, if _Type is felt appropriate then that is
> semantically equivalent to types having a separate name space. The latter
> could be introduced in Ada at any time, being fully backward compatible.

I'm not sure about the backward compatibility. For one thing, the 'Size 
attribute may have a different value for a type and for an object of the 
type. This means that given an object declaration "List : List", where 
the latter List is a type name, the expression List'Size would be 
ambiguous and could have a different value for the object List and the 
type List.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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