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From: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Future Ada language revisions?
Date: 1998/10/02
Date: 1998-10-02T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6v2jbi$cfm$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6uqjh3$nbg@top.mitre.org

mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner) writes:

>Aliasing of any kind (including homonyms) encourages programmers to
>insert bugs in their code and then provides a path in the variable 
>name space through which those bugs can propogate to other parts of the
>code.  [...]
>here is a list of the Ada constructs (other than ALIASED) which
>provide a form of aliasing: [...]
>    homonyms such as overloaded enumeration elements [...]

Enumeration elements are constants, aren't they?
There's nothing wrong with aliasing constants, is there?

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  reply	other threads:[~1998-10-02  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-27  0:00 Future Ada language revisions? bpr5549
1998-09-27  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-09-27  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
1998-09-28  0:00     ` Michael F Brenner
1998-09-28  0:00       ` dewarr
1998-09-28  0:00     ` dewarr
1998-09-28  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
1998-09-29  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-09-29  0:00         ` Michael F Brenner
1998-10-02  0:00           ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
1998-09-28  0:00   ` Arthur Evans Jr
1998-09-28  0:00     ` dewarr
1998-09-28  0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-05  0:00   ` Alfred Hilscher
1998-10-05  0:00     ` dewarr
1998-10-06  0:00       ` Alfred Hilscher
1998-10-05  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-05  0:00       ` dewarr
1998-10-05  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-02  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-03  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-05  0:00     ` dewarr
1998-10-04  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-05  0:00         ` Martin Dowie
1998-10-05  0:00           ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-05  0:00             ` Martin Dowie
1998-10-05  0:00           ` dewarr
1998-10-06  0:00           ` dennison
1998-10-06  0:00             ` dewarr
1998-10-06  0:00               ` Martin Dowie
1998-10-06  0:00             ` Martin Dowie
1998-10-06  0:00           ` dennison
1998-10-06  0:00           ` r_barton1
1998-10-06  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-06  0:00     ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-06  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-07  0:00       ` dewarr
     [not found] ` <tgmF02yDo.A84@netcom.com>
1998-10-06  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-08  0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-08  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-09  0:00     ` dennison
1998-10-08  0:00   ` Pat Rogers
1998-10-16  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-10-21  0:00 Van Snyder
1998-10-22  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-21  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-23  0:00     ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-29  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-30  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
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