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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign
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Date: 1997/05/12
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In article <dewar.863324701@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

   Robert Dewar said:

   > In my programming the name clash that I most often come across
   > is something like
   >     Parent : constant xxx := Parent (K);

   My reaction in those cases is to diagnose a misplaced use clause,
and use the package name:

   Parent : constant xxx := My_List_Instance.Parent (K);

   If this is not sufficient, you have a deeper design problem. It may
be possible to call a function in the scope in which it is defined
without ABE in this case in Ada 95:

   function Parent(Foo: Bar) return xxx is... end Parent;

   Parent: constant xxx := My_List_Instance.Parent (K);

   ...but most such cases are very suspicious.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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