Re: Novice Ada Programmer Stumped By Simple Type Declaration!

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3BBCD596.AF223388@san.rr.com>, Darren New says...
>
>Ted Dennison wrote:
>> 
>> It looks like you should be calling URI_Pkg.URI_List_Pkg.Append.
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>Oh! Duh! It's not URI_Pkg.Append. It's URI_Pkg.URI_List_Pkg.Append.

Once I figured out how to deal with routines in generic packages, it did become
obvious. But at first I had no end of trouble with it, so don't feel bad about
it.

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>Adding "use URI_Pkg.URI_List_Pkg" fixes it.

Right. Once you figure out the exact name of the routine you *should* be
calling, then its (arguably) OK to put in the proper use to get access to it.
The problem people get into with uses is that they use them as a crutch so that
they never have to know or think about where stuff is comming from.

>(Incidentally, this is for the unit-test code for a
>first-one-to-throw-away project, while I'm learning Ada, so the over-use
>of "use" isn't as bad as it might be.)

Even for those, I don't do "use"s. 8-)

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