From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Idiomatic formatting for empty package
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:34:49 +0200
Date: 2017-10-10T16:34:49+02:00 [thread overview]
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On 10/10/2017 12:21 PM, AdaMagica wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2017 09:12:23 UTC+2 schrieb Jeffrey R. Carter:
>> ... I think the purpose of Ada was namespace control: Where before we had a
>> bunch of pkgs using up names we might want to use, after we had a single
>> hierarchy under Ada. (Of course, the Ada-83 compatibility renamings undo
>> that.) ...
>
> But those renamings don't clutter the user's namespace since the names may be
> used for user-created packages: RM J.1(10), AARM A.2(4.a).
Yes, but I'd never use those names, since they'd confuse the reader, who would
reasonably assume they were the renamings. So they're still effectively off limits.
--
Jeff Carter
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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2017-10-04 21:36 Idiomatic formatting for empty package Victor Porton
2017-10-04 22:10 ` Victor Porton
2017-10-05 5:27 ` Re : " Pascal Obry
2017-10-05 18:10 ` marciant
2017-10-05 23:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-10-06 20:04 ` marciant
2017-10-07 1:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-10-05 23:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-10-06 8:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-10-07 1:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-10-07 6:55 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-10-09 21:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2017-10-10 7:12 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2017-10-10 10:21 ` AdaMagica
2017-10-10 14:34 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2017-10-10 17:38 ` AdaMagica
2017-10-05 23:49 ` andrewshvets
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