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,ab3fadb7cac7363c X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!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: using `use' : what is the best practice ? Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:11:07 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <57e75a35-058c-4172-9a3d-e11e7c5f7697@l2g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <15kaiizx7r3pu$.3bgefr92z5i7$.dlg@40tude.net> <1ofcb8g6dasre.uvhg77u842n6$.dlg@40tude.net> <1w9xkam751gnx$.1p76eva14vlua.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: fGpkzlUfcOSQVUiZJOXhgg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.11 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:20725 Date: 2011-06-11T16:11:07+02:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:38:32 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > I would prefer stricter rules on > declarations hiding each other (requiring explicit resolution of all > conflicts) [*]. I definitely want a stronger than "use", transitive = > clause > to incorporate the declaration scope of a package into the scope of = > another > package. I would like to have multiple parents too. > > ----------------------- > * When people play this card against MI, they forget that packages all= ow > exactly same. And if fully qualified names were a solution for package= s, > why it could not be for MI as well? Yes, right. People frightened of MI seems to have not understood this is= = all about name conflict [*]. And we all know the way to solve this. [*] And that is purely syntactical, this is not even conceptual! So MI i= s = probably rejected mostly for syntactical-like matters. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [Ep= igrams on = Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale University] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [Idem] =E2=80=9Cc++; /* this makes c bigger but returns the old value */=E2=80=9D= [Anonymous]