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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/02
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In article <7lh74s$v36$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> In article <377B5807.88B875E0@cs.york.ac.uk>,
>   Neil.Audsley@cs.york.ac.uk wrote:
> >
> > We have a lot of Ada source that "with"s and "use"s a lot of
> packages --
> > to the extent that it is difficult and time-consuming to find
> out which
> > package a procedure is actually from.
> I don't know of a dotification tool, but it seems strange to
> claim that it is difficult and time-consuming to find out
> which package a procedure is from. That sounds like you are
> not using appropriate tools. Try using the EMACS interface

While I appreciate the fact that *some* compiler systems have facilites
to help decipher stuff like this under *certian* circumstances, I am not
persuaded that obtuse source code is just a "tool problem".

If I have to use specialized tools to figure out what someone's source
code is doing, the tool that springs most readily to mind is a baseball
bat...

--
T.E.D.


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