Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 04/23/2014 08:43 AM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>>
> Ah! Another case of "I don't want to use the use clause, give me
> something else that avoids writing these damn long names".

While I agree with your sentiment, I think there's something else involved here, 
too. The Ada-95 version of the PragmAda Reusable Components include protected 
versions of the data structures, and in numerous cases users chose the protected 
version for purely sequential software in order to obtain the Object.Operation 
notation that a protected type offers. This was true even for users who used use 
clauses, and so chose to write

Queue.Put (Item => Thingy);

rather than

Put (Onto => Queue, Item => Thingy);

I don't think this is an issue of saving keystrokes, but a belief that the 
former is easier to read than the latter.

With the addition of such notation for tagged types in 2007, exposure to this 
difference has become more widespread, so desiring V'Image rather than T'Image 
(V) may not be entirely about saving keystrokes.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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