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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: some trivial questions? Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 11:37:48 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <6a5368c5-f015-4dcb-9291-e77b40fa1bf1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lKHBldubgAWx1EqbQpQ5LQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48701 Date: 2017-11-02T11:37:48+01:00 List-Id: On 02/11/2017 11:29, Simon Wright wrote: > tclwarrior@gmail.com writes: > >> i think in a program with a large import (use) list of libraries, this >> can save many lines and looks cleaner > > I don't have stats on this, but if a package has a large enough set of > withed packages the package itself will probably be too big for comfort. "With" tend to accumulate towards the final packages of the project. It is difficult to fight. Although important, because GNAT has a nasty memory issue directly related to the number of withed packages. BTW, would you count with A.B.C.D; as 1 or 4? -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de