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From: Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Clause "with and use"
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:51:51 -0500, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG"
<ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote:

>I agree with this whole-heartedly for anything more than
>a simple "hello world" program. This keeps the name
>clashes to a minimum, and it prevents unintended
>references to functions/procedures in the wrong package.
>There may be some exceptions to this, but these should be
>kept to a bare minimum, IMHO.

Does anybody a statistics of name clashes in Ada?

What percent is caused by the language design problems:

A. "renames" actually does not rename, but creates a new, possibly
conflicting view. A naive user would expect no conflict there.

B. "subtype" used as a substitute for non-existing type renaming
causes conflicts when "use"-d.

I have a feeling that hatred towards "use" is largely caused by
outside reasons like A. and B.

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Dmitry Kazakov
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