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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/12
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In article <dale-0907991223380001@dale.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
  dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) wrote:

> I would think that the Ada heirachy could be renamed to
> shorter names if...

My preferred approach would be to forbid any user packages
from duplicating the names used in the RM in Annex A and
other standard packages, unless there is a very definite
methodological reason for the duplication (e.g. defining
a Put procedure for additional types).

If this is followed, then since all these names are familiar
to Ada programmers, I see no reason to use such package
abbreviations for these names. On the contrary, such
abbreviations may indeed imply that you are NOT using
the standard routines.

If you must prefix the routines, I will say again, that I
prefer

Ada.Text_IO.Put

to

ATIO.Put

This is certainly a matter of taste, but the objection to
abbreviations is a pretty common one, and as I said before,
many style guides discourage or forbid abbreviations (what
has AQ&S to say on the abbreviation issue).


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