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!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: martin.dowie@btopenworld.com (Martin Dowie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Manifesto against Vector Date: 10 May 2004 04:55:03 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 20.138.254.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1084190103 11136 127.0.0.1 (10 May 2004 11:55:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:55:03 +0000 (UTC) Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:416 Date: 2004-05-10T04:55:03-07:00 List-Id: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) wrote in message news:... > And you're worried about modifying the Reference Manual? For Pete's > sake, I'll write the two sentences it will take. Here you go: > > The new keyword "with/use", when it appears in a context section, is a > convenient shorthand for combining "with" and "use" without repeating > the library unit name. For example, > > with/use Ada.Text_IO, Ada.Integer_Text_IO; > > is equivalent to > > with Ada.Text_IO, Ada.Integer_Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO, > Ada.Integer_Text_IO; > > except that it is shorter, cleaner, less error prone, and easier to > read. > > [end of addition to RM] So go and propose this via an AI! The ARG aren't going to do this as _none_ of the compiler vendor's customers are asking for it. I assume you are not a current customer... if you are then go and hassle your vendor!!!! Cheers -- Martin