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-Thread: 103376,e55245590c829bef X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Beginners question: Compound types, how-to? Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:19:03 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <86wroy58ff.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86pqup5xfy.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86y69d3rec.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <82lj5c5ecm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <79ed13b7-4c55-40c4-9f66-e30ed94e5591@e14g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> <4cd0b0ed$0$6775$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dFCm8HWntFqmDIilBLqEJQ"; logging-data="19838"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/TqcjPixwQCxcFBt/u1hLPTC+8JmUJvEc=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LbTz1IkLNnM2pdRiqiAfMsZyM9g= sha1:pwML9YSV9qYfjQ1zOZvEbgZg9Xw= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16155 Date: 2010-11-03T21:19:03+00:00 List-Id: "Vinzent Hoefler" writes: > On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:46:37 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > >> Please don't mistake this suggestion to be in favor >> of separate namespaces for types and other things. > > Not that this would be a problem: > > Weapon_Procedures.Attack (Weapon : Weapon_Types.Weapon); But why would you want to attack a weapon? Well, to be fair, that's what point-defence anti-missile systems do, I suppose; I definitely had the 'Using' use case in mind, though!