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Subject: Re: using `use' : what is the best practice ?
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On 06/08/2011 02:31 AM, milouz wrote:
>
> Yes, as I'm new to Ada, I still have a lot of things to learn /
> understand. I'm a kernel developer, and my way to learn Ada is to
> write some drivers and very low-level stuffs. That's why I need to
> play with address arithmetic.

More correctly, you *think* you need to play with address arithmetic. You may be 
right, but address arithmetic is needed extremely rarely in Ada. Ada has 
alternatives to most address arithmetic in C.

However, this has nothing to do with use clauses.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system,
and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
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