Re: "with"ing package Standard

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <q_lU4.13918$wb7.1292608@news.flash.net>,
  "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote:
> Should I be able to "with" package Standard and/or its
children, e.g.
>
> with Ada.Text_IO, Standard.ASCII;
> procedure Test_Return is
> begin
>   Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("The position of ASCII.CR is " &
>     Integer'Image(Character'Pos(ASCII.CR)));
> end Test_Return;


This is legal, but only if you have declared a package
called Standard, with a child package called ASCII.

In pragmatic terms, your program is doubly wrong.

First, you can't with Standard itself, since all library units
are child units of Standard. A with of Standard, means you are
trying to with Standard.Standard.

Second, ASCII is a subpackage, not a child package of standard
and you cannot WITH a subpackage.




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