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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Suffix _T for types found good
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"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message 
news:2259e1a3-e04c-4662-affb-dae07baa4a43@x16g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
...
> Let me try to make myself clearer: If there were a rule change in Ada
> so that types (or subtypes) could have the same identifiers as other
> entities in the same scope, in many or most cases the compiler could
> unambiguously determine from context whether the identifier refers to
> the type:

Type conversions and array indexing also would be ambiguous:

Some_Array : Some_Array;

... Some_Array (<expr>) ...

I think that would be much worse than attributes (they're used a lot more, 
especially array indexing).

Of course, a language supporting that could have used square brackets for 
indexing (like Pascal), and get rid of that problem. But it won't work in 
Ada.

                               Randy.