From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!agate!linus!linus!eachus From: eachus@linus.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Expanded names Message-ID: Date: 1 Oct 90 19:49:12 GMT References: <9009241814.AA08734@bx.sei.cmu.edu> <2228@charon.cwi.nl> Sender: usenet@linus.mitre.org Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA In-reply-to: dik@cwi.nl's message of 25 Sep 90 08:27:27 GMT List-Id: Of course if you replace the name testnames with STANDARD, now it is impossible to name the outer outer_constant from the inner STANDARD, but that carries this experiment to its most pathological extreme. (It it legal to compile a library package named STANDARD, but not one named CHARACTER or INTEGER. There seemed to be no need to have a special rule to make such masochistic behavior explicitly illegal.) -- Robert I. Eachus with STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; use STANDARD_DISCLAIMER; function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...