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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 12:34:28 +0100
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Steve wrote:

>   Ada has no equivalent to Pascal's "with" statement (if you've maintained
>   a
> lot of Pascal code, you know why this is an advantage).

In fact Ada 95 has an equivalent of Pascal's "with":

X : Some_Type renames An.Extremely.Long.Path.Name.Object;

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