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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cd94a799504cebd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-17 06:49:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator2-austin!propagator!feed2.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9qi8ls$a2g1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3BCCF185.A4512DDA@san.rr.com> Subject: Re: Small question concerning use Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:48:30 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:48:30 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14801 Date: 2001-10-17T13:48:30+00:00 List-Id: In article <3BCCF185.A4512DDA@san.rr.com>, Darren New says... > >tmoran@acm.org wrote: >> OTOH, Ada.Streams.Stream_Element_Count was clearly designed with the >> intention of "use Ada.Streams", in which case Stream_Element_Count >> is very readable, while Ada.Streams.Stream_Element_Count is ugly. > >Right. My thought was that "always avoid use - it leads to ambiguities" >is too sweeping a statement in the face of this sort of naming >convention. That's backward thinking, in my book. Just because someone made an awkward naming choice on some packages is no reason to abandon the Right Thing. Now if you don't feel that avioding "use"s is the Right Thing for other good reasons, then that's fine. But horrible choices made by the library designers are not a good reason. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.