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From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: Enumeration literal visibility and use type
Date: 1998/05/26
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David C. Hoos, Sr. (david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com) wrote:

: John McCabe wrote in message <6kejt5$75u@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com>...
: John is correct.  The only way I've found to make the literals visible
: (without
: a context clause "use doodah;") is in the units requiring visibility is to
: declare:

: state_0 : constant doodah.state_value_type := doodah.state_0;
: .
: .
: .
: state_etc : constant doodah.state_value_type := doodah.state_etc;
: Anyone have a better way?

Dunno about "better", but I can do "different"... ;-)

function state_0 return doodah.state_value_type renames doodah.state_0;
-- etc. etc.

(but of course I'd use Capitalised_Identifiers :-)

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