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Chad R. Meiners wrote:

> But it isn't clutter; with and use serve two different purposes so they
> shouldn't be combined.

As I have said before, what has come out of this discussion that is very 
worthwhile is the idea of adding, "use all {package name}" to the 
language.  There are places where having a single use clause instead of 
a series of them would be a big improvement.

It would be nice to allow 'use all' to apply to generic instances.  But 
I think that in practice, a 'use all' that was the equivalent of a use 
clause for all child packages of a package would encourage people to 
make generic instantiations child units where appropriate.

-- 
                                           Robert I. Eachus

100% Ada, no bugs--the only way to create software.