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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Clause "with and use"
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:37:00 -0500
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"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> If you want a single number to measure the "goodness" of the design, I
> have been comfortable with (2S + B)/(N * ln(N)) where N is the total
> number of compilation units and subunits, S is the number of with
> clauses on package specs (including generic package specs) and B is the
> number of with clauses on other units.  Some people may disagree with
> including separate subunits in N, but I seldom find designs abusing
> that.  There is a problem though is some compilation units are too
> small, so I get concerned when the average size of compilation units is
> outside the 100 to 1000 NCSLOC (non-comment source lines of code) range.

So if you write one package that pramga imports all of your required
functions and write your entire project in a single procedure that with's
only that package, you get a goodness of 1/2?  ;-) ;-)