Re: Ada Java question => clarification

[fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)]

Kendal Van Dyke <kendal@fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us> writes:

>Brad Balfour wrote:
>
> [Tucker Taft wrote:]
>> >do any of the following:
>> >  1) use the full name "java.awt.event" instead of "event";
>> >  2) drop the use of "event" in "event.UP" and say simply "UP";
>> >  3) add a "use" clause for "java.awt" which will make the package
>> >     names "event", "component", "color", and "graphics" directly visible.
>> 
>> However, once you follow #1, you will get the following error for each
>> case choice:
>> 
>>       WHEN java.awt.event.UP => return true;
>> keydown.ada: Error: line 30 col 27 LRM:3.8.1(8) & 5.4(5), The expression
>> in the discrete choice must be static
>
>Ok, after changing the case statement to an if statement, I STILL had to
>use the full name (java.awt.event.[up, down, left, right, etc]) in order
>for it to work right, even with the with and use clauses for
>java.awt.event . Don't know if that's a big deal or not....just extra
>typing for me at the least!

That's because you adopted solution 1 above.
If you want less typing, use solution 2 or 3.

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