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: 103376,2a687662f09731bb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny07.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Don't use the "use" clause References: <1132227919.9036.51.camel@sonnenregen> <1132233886.11218.11.camel@sonnenregen> Message-ID: From: "Ed Falis" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Opera M2/8.50 (Linux, build 1358) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:35:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.19.237.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny07 1132432536 70.19.237.199 (Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:35:36 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:35:36 EST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6482 Date: 2005-11-19T20:35:36+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:28:25 -0500, Anonymous Coward wrote: > I don't only oppose it because of the ambiguity, but even when there > is no ambiguity, it's a severe inconvenience to have to grep a large > tree to hunt down a declaration. Then to possibly get multiple hits > and have to compare two lists of packages to discover which hit is the > correct one. By the time you make it to the declaration you're > looking for, you've forgotten why you need to look at it If you were using a modern editor, with Ada cross-referencing, you wouldn't have this problem. GPS, emacs Ada mode, ObjectAda and quite a few others provide this. - Ed