From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: "use" clauses and Ada 95 OOP
Date: 1996/07/19
Date: 1996-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EACHUS.96Jul19102232@spectre.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Dup54L.2q2.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com
In article <Dup54L.2q2.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mg@asp.camb.inmet.com (Mitch Gart) writes:
> It seems to me that this notation is misleading because a reader might
> think that the function in pkg1 will be executed.
> Therefore with tagged types I have adopted the style of always using
> "use" clauses and writing the call
> func(x);
> in the source code. This seems less misleading to me. I never used to
> use "use" clauses in Ada 83 but I now use them a lot in Ada 95 when
> calling dispatching operations.
> Have other people adopted this style? Comments? People who have written
> coding standards which say "don't use 'use' clauses", do you think this
> rule is still a good idea with Ada 95 dispatching?
My rule is to always "use type" dispatching types. The names you
no longer have to qualify are the ones where the qualification would
be misleading.
--
Robert I. Eachus
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-17 0:00 "use" clauses and Ada 95 OOP Mitch Gart
1996-07-19 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen Schmid
1996-07-23 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Kevin J. Weise
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Kevin J. Weise
1996-07-23 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-25 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus [this message]
1996-07-23 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-07-25 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-20 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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