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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c39ad3e35a7690a9 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.73.229 with SMTP id o5mr12231593pbv.7.1329214730713; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:18:50 -0800 (PST) Path: wr5ni23603pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Convention for naming of packages Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:18:49 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4f355230$0$21451$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: XZfFzKekCOFJcoZatuLArw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.61 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-02-14T11:18:49+01:00 List-Id: Le Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:19:08 +0100, Yannick Duch=C3=AAne (Hibou57) = a =C3=A9crit: > Le Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:53:16 +0100, J-P. Rosen a =C3= =A9crit: >> Nothing prevents you from >> qualifying with a package name inside a use clause for that package! > > And conversely, nothing prevents one to Used a package designed for "u= se = > unfriendly". Also worth noting too, is this example from J.P. Rosen, in a paper = explaining the OO Model of Ada 2005. with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; with Calendar; package Persistance is type Services is interface; procedure Read (F : in File_Type; Item : out Services) is abstract; procedure Write (F : in File_Type; Item : in Services) is abstract; procedure Set_Expiration (To_Date : in Calendar.Time) is null; end Persistance; Note how he Used Ada.Text_IO and just Withed Ada.Calendar. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity