Re: Subprogram Renaming

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

James Squire said:

"Still (!) Nobody has answered the $64,000.00 question:  WHY IS THIS SUCH
A GOOD THING?  In other words, why did they waste their time adding this
ability to rename a subprogram body.  Why should I do:"

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If you think this then please answer the following question:

why do we provide subprogram renaming at all? It is after all redundant,
you could always provide a junk body?

There is no question that this is a useful new capability, especially,
as I noted before, when the renaming as body is not in the package body,
but instead in the private part of the package spec.

This is obviously better than putting a renaming in the visible part of
the spec, as Gary quite clearly explained.