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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: some trivial questions? Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 21:16:45 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <6a5368c5-f015-4dcb-9291-e77b40fa1bf1@googlegroups.com> <1510001599.30535.24.camel@obry.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="37b4e8fecb2e6fc32a1c55e81e6da0e6"; logging-data="16531"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/NNZzVYrxkd/DjZUeTZ/UA8H3fdEDXaL8=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+8b1r3NMErFmz/baCnEgi7yVmrU= sha1:mRex3igDSQwCjhy2UPOOCCPMALM= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48745 Date: 2017-11-06T21:16:45+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry writes: > As an example Unbounded_String has been designed to be "use". The > package is named: Ada.Strings.Unbounded_String. So Unbounded_String is > a self contained name, Ada.Strings is just noise here. (ARM A.5.4) The package is named Ada.Strings.Unbounded! and I'm afraid that in consequence the rest of the post doesn't really make sense > Now if the name was named just Unbounded, then you may just "use Ada" > and write: > > Strings.Unbounded > > No longer, no harder, no more verbose than: > > Unbounded_String > > And add some "use [all] type" where it applies to have the operator > visible.