From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Frowining upon with clauses (was:Re: Environment Variables)
Date: 1997/02/08
Date: 1997-02-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.855435826@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32ECE7F8.35B@watson.ibm.com
Norman says, answering John
<<> On an unrelated note (and this is a classroom question, but it's not
> doing my homework for me), my professor commented that using WITH, though
> common in Ada-83, is frowned upon by the industry in Ada 95. Any
> specific reason for that?
"Frowned upon" seems a bit overgeneral. Certainly there are packages
that are most appropriately written as child packages in Ada 95, and in
Ada 83 such packages would have had to been written as independent
packages gain access to the facilities of the "parent package" through a
with clause.
>>
Surely John is confusing WITH with USE, I cannot imagine anyone who knows
anything at all about Ada saying tha the use of WITH is frowned upon,
whereas it is quite true that many Ada programmers prefer to avoid USE (a
subject on which we do *not* need another thread I think!)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-02-08 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-01-21 0:00 Environment Variables John M. Greer
1997-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-01-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-01-24 0:00 ` Mike Bishop
1997-01-25 0:00 ` Doug Smith
1997-01-27 0:00 ` Frowining upon with clauses (was:Re: Environment Variables) Norman H. Cohen
1997-02-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-01-27 0:00 ` Environment Variables David Emery
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