From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1e3f2eac5c026e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-22 10:22:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-west.nntpserver.com!hub1.meganetnews.com!nntpserver.com!falcon.america.net!eagle.america.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Larry Hazel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Other Ada Standards (was Re: SIGada Conference) References: <468D78E4EE5C6A4093A4C00F29DF513D04B82B08@VS2.hdi.tvcabo> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:25:01 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.0.32.41 X-Trace: eagle.america.net 1072117392 66.0.32.41 (Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:23:12 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:23:12 EST Organization: 24hoursupport.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3706 Date: 2003-12-22T12:25:01-06:00 List-Id: Robert I. Eachus wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> So create a new keyword, contraction of "with" and "use" --> >> "wise" >> >> What's so terrible, is that I'm not sure if I mean that as a >> joke... > > > Or within or whereas. Not really joking either. Once you realize that > the current meaning of use has to be kept for use inside program units, > and for odd upward compatibility cases, and that there is a large > population of Ada programmers who often write with without use, then the > syntactic sugar of the proposal is just that, rather arbitrary syntax > designed to look nice. (I could of course suggest syntax that doesn't > meet that criteria, but why?) > using or gimme :)