From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: "recursive" accept statement ??
Date: 1998/12/15
Date: 1998-12-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3soehb2rs.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 755sbg$80n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
dennison@telepath.com writes:
> In article <1998Dec15.122957@lri.fr>,
> fv@lri.fr (Frederic Voisin) wrote:
> > I have trouble understanding the behavior of the following program (or
> > the rationale
> > for allowing its behavior, if correct):
> > -------------------------------------
> > with Ada.text_io ; use Ada.text_io ;
> >
> Ada.text_io.put(str); -- works fine
> > Put(Str); -- behave like trace.Put(str) ????
> >
>
> > If allowed, what is the rationale behind, since such construct is much
> > error-proned
>
> Some would say that doing a "use" is error prone, and that was the source of
> your problem. :-)
Using use is not the problem. The problem is not understanding Ada's
scope rules.
I use use all the time.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-15 0:00 "recursive" accept statement ?? Frederic Voisin
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-15 0:00 ` David C. Hoos
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Marc A. Criley
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-15 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1998-12-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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