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From: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Future Ada language revisions?
Date: 1998/10/02
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Date: 1998-10-02T00:00:00+00:00
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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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