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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fce663eaf40b52f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: with and use again References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 12:27:27 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1083947246 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 07 May 2004 12:27:26 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 12:27:26 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:371 Date: 2004-05-07T12:27:27-04:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2004 10:29, Dmitry A.Kazakov wrote: >>On Thu, 6 May 2004 09:03:54 +0200, "Jean-Pierre Rosen" >> >>>... With is a library level >>>clause; it tells: "this unit, somewhere needs that unit". >> >>Why that should be told? I'd say that "with" is superfluous. > > I think it's to make it easier for the compiler. Without the with a lot more > semantic processing would be required, and probably an additional pass. It also makes it easier for YOU. You don't need to scan your eyes through the entire spec/body to find out what other units this source file depends upon. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk