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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing
Date: 2000/03/01
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In article <wcc900324d1.fsf@world.std.com>,
  Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> rh@signal.dera.gov.uk (Roger Hoyle) writes:
>
> > 1) Is this basically a good idea? It seems sensible to me,
but then I know
> >    little about Ada. (I'm asking about generally not
'use'ing stuff, not
> >    specifically my current situation)
>
> You've just started a language war between the two dialects of
Ada --
> the use-phobes and the use-philes.  ;-)

That's not quite right, because the situation is not
symmetrical.

The use-phobes are indeed phobic, and actually subset the
language, often working in a subset that forbids USE clauses
completely.

The class of people who Bob calls use-philes are no more
use-philes than they are procedure-files or
assignment-statement-philes. It is not that they *like*
USE clauses, they simply regard them, like any other
feature in the language, as something to be used when
appropriate and not otherwise.



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