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Subject: Re: Idiomatic formatting for empty package
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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!"
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