Re: Clear Screen

[kst@sd.aonix.com (Keith Thompson)]

In <dewar.857447446@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> <<This will also make any other declarations within Ada.Characters visible.
> (It happens that the only such declaration is the child package
> Ada.Characters.Handling, and that only if you "with" it.)>>
> 
> And that presumably is what you want, if you with it, or are you recommending
> that the single use clause be replaced by two of your renamings in this case?
> :-)

The original discussion mentioned only Ada.Characters.Latin_1.  A use
clause for Ada.Characters makes Latin_1 directly visible, but it can
have other side effects (especially if the implementation provides other
children of Ada.Characters, like GNAT's Wide_Latin_1).

One argument in favor of the renames, in this particular case, is that
the name Latin_1 is far less ambiguous than Handling.

As I said, I'm not recommending anything, just pointing out alternatives.

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