From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Why both "with" and "use"?
Date: 1999/02/19
Date: 1999-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7akabo$1uk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ak471$rt9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7ak471$rt9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
dennison@telepath.com wrote:
>> Your example is particularly appropriate, because
> Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Unbounded_String looks like it
> was created by the department of redundancy department.
> :-)
Not at all, it was created with the intention that
a USE clause would be used on this package, and in
that case Unbounded_String is quite a reasonable name.
If it was named simply String, that would create a nasty
clash with the type in Standard, and would be much
less convenient, because then we would write
Ada.Strings.Unbounded.String, which is still a mouthful!
Furthermore, we really do not typically want to have
to preface every routine in this package by Unbounded,
Unbounded.Head (Unbounded.To_String ("abc"), ....
seems plain annoying to me!
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-13 0:00 Why both "with" and "use"? Mike Silva
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-13 0:00 ` mike
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-13 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-14 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-14 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-17 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-18 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-18 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-19 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-19 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Ada multiple string personalities. why so many? mike
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
1999-02-19 0:00 ` Why both "with" and "use"? dennison
1999-02-19 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-13 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-13 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1999-02-14 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-02-16 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-15 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
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