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From: "Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Renames: use of it....
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:57:45 -0500
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Looks like something that is not a syntactic necessity, so it was probably
done for some design reason. One excuse is that you may want visibility of
only certain things within a package from some subset of the whole system.
I'd bet money that the original designers didn't leave around much in the
way of design documentation, but if they did, that would be where you'd
likely see the rationale for the COMMANDS package, which would explain why
it exists with renames for things in ACTION_CONTROLER.

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prashna <vashwath@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I am doing a code review for a one of the module in flight management
> computer.
> One the procedure is calling an another procedure
> (COMMANDS.EXECUTE_SCROLL) from a package called COMMANDS.
> In package COMMANDS the declaration of the procedure EXECUTE_SCROLL is
> as follows :
> procedure EXECUTE_SCROLL (MCDU_ID   : in
> MMI_APPLICATION_TYPES.T_MCDU_ID;
>                              DIRECTION : in CONTEXT_TYPES.T_DIRECTION)
> renames ACTION_CONTROLER.EXECUTE_SCROLL;
>
> All the procedures in this package is rename of a procedure in package
> ACTION_CONTROLER or some other package. Why is it so?Why can't use the
> procedure from the package ACTION_CONTROLER itself(i.e instead of
> calling COMMANDS.EXECUTE_SCROLL why can't they use
> ACTION_CONTROLER.EXECUTE_SCROLL)?Is the package COMMANDS really
> required?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> ashwath