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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: casecrash: language lawyers: C'mon!
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Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote in message 
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GNAT says here:

casecrash.adb:6:02: "H" conflicts with declaration at line 2
 
> Why on earth should I accept this rule in this case?

Because, very deliberately, obverloading is restricted to function
and procedure names (enumeration literals are function names from
the point of view of this rule). We definitely do NOT want to allow
overloading of variable names, since it is impossible to see how this
could improve readability of programs. There is no excuse for reusing
H in the sample program you gave.

> Topic for Ada2005?

Nope. I see no reason for changing a well designed and well founded
rule here. This rule is clearly stated, and well understood by Ada
programmers. There is no basis for change.