From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6cb2525ffbfe23ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Why both "with" and "use"? Date: 1999/02/19 Message-ID: <7ako10$e3l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 446200639 References: <36C5B28C.F32C43A4@jps.net> <7acj53$1vu@news3.newsguy.com> <7af68r$52o$1@platane.wanadoo.fr> <7ahq7p$s6k$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7ak471$rt9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7akabo$1uk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7akfni$6ua$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x2.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Feb 19 22:19:16 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7akfni$6ua$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dennison@telepath.com wrote: > In article <7akabo$1uk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, > robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > > > > 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! > > ...until you try programming with bounded strings too. Not at all!! Your declarations in this case will say Bounded_String or Unbounded_String and then of course you get the right Trim. That is what overloading is all about, and why it is useful. Surely you do not get upset that "+" means different things depending on which type it is applied to??? -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own