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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: RE: Bad coding standards
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:19:03 GMT
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In article
<NBBBJNOMKDIAJALCEFIJKECIEBAA.rleif@rleif.com>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> --*********Table of Contents********
> Package Analyze_Type_Declaration renames
>   Semantics_For_RM_Ch_3.Analyze_Type_Declaration;
> --*********End Table of Contents********
> --I presumed Analyze_Type_Declaration was a package

This kind of garbage renaming might I suppose be
useful in a system where you have trouble telling
where an entity resides, but in a decent system
where this information is immediately at hand I
see no possible advantage in this kind of redundancy.
In particular, repeating parameters of procedures
in every unit using the procedure seems particularly
ugly to me. Imagine the impact if you added a default
parameter!


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