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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1e3f2eac5c026e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-27 14:52:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:52:52 -0600 Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:52:51 -0500 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Other Ada Standards (was Re: SIGada Conference) References: <468D78E4EE5C6A4093A4C00F29DF513D04B82B08@VS2.hdi.tvcabo> <3FE991DD.5060301@noplace.com> <3FEA5C82.8050309@noplace.com> <3FEB047A.1040100@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.214.193 X-Trace: sv3-SU7LbU9D910UQcWLVWGfyYKTdUOXNGCVdH5fB0KXzMBKHRtII78PsBd/FrvIJRrLD2lpWTQG/7tG2iv!ur+7fm5I/7FR1qwDAAlD+7S481km9sgLK0gehuTwiDJ3K4ZkR3eHw2zOUzazZA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3864 Date: 2003-12-27T17:52:51-05:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > If I understand you correctly, I think that's an excellent proposal. > It would eliminate an annoying technicality that prevents > simplification of context declarations. Some people don't agree with you that it is an "annoying technicality." Do I sometimes use the feature? Yes. Often? No. But there are times when you need it, and there is no reasonable workaround. (The type or types of the parameters of the compilation unit you are creating are declared in a nested package, or some of the operations you need for the initial values.) There are other people who almost never write a use clause that could be replaced by a with clause. On a difficulty scale, adding a feature to the language is easier than changing a feature, and most difficult of all is removing or replacing a feature. (Not that we haven't done it--see Annex J.) -- Robert I. Eachus "The war on terror is a different kind of war, waged capture by capture, cell by cell, and victory by victory. Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty." -- George W. Bush