Re: Scope of identifiers

[jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)]

In article <3174F2AF.1C4@banana.demon.co.uk> "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevq@banana.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Is there a way (I've looked and can't find one) of informing an Ada compiler that
> a prefix is a package?  The following (contrived) code example illustrates:
> 
>   package Pong is
>     procedure Neutralise;
>   end Pong;
> 
>   with Pong;
>   procedure OdourControl is
      package Pong_Pkg renames Pong;  <----
>     type Smells is (Pong, Whiff);
>     Smell : Smells;
>   begin
>     Smell := Pong;
>     Pong_Pkg.Neutralise;            <----
>   end OdourControl;

Rename the thing before you occlude it with the new definition so
you can use it later..

>  As an aside, are there any situations where an enumeration literal
> makes any sense at all as an lvalue?  I can't think of any...

Neither can I...

/Jon
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