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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
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Subject: Re: Clause "with and use"
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Gautier Write-only <gautier@fakeaddress.nil> wrote in message news:<3FA2CDCB.500F4AF0@fakeaddress.nil>...

>  To sum up, I'd describe the current situation so 
> 
>  - beginner-repellent and newcomer-repellent (not to be neglected !) 
>  - ugly 
>  - redundant 
>  - causes a readability problem and possible confusions 
>  - pushes the real thing, i.e. the programming contents after 
>  "procedure/package... is", too far away of the source's top 
>  - needs too much administration 
> 
>  My proposal: a "with and use" clause. "with and use A[,B]" would 
>  mean "with A[,B]; use A[,B]". 
> 
>  (C) 
> 
>  -- (1) With'ed only 
>  with Ada.Command_Line; 
> 
>  -- (2) With'ed and Use'd 
>  with and use Ada.Text_IO, Ada.Integer_Text_IO, Ada.Float_Text_IO; 

Fabulous idea! I'd refine it one step further to "with/use":

with/use Ada.Text_IO, Ada.Integer_Text_IO, Ada.Float_Text_IO;