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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1a52c822fc0dbb23 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Rational for not making cursor tagged in Containers Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:02:29 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <1176998738.656903.141250@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1177010938.200523.325290@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1a8y2vakorfhx.225uqh4hifpd$.dlg@40tude.net> <1177031884.096796.106370@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <1v9a0f.p9c.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1177075382.262926.247740@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1177088471 6788 195.25.228.57 (20 Apr 2007 17:01:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:01:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) In-Reply-To: <1177075382.262926.247740@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15160 Date: 2007-04-20T18:02:29+02:00 List-Id: Anh Vo a �crit : > On Apr 20, 4:59 am, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: >> Anh Vo a �crit :> I do not understand what other confusions do you refer to. Other >>> advantage of prefix notation is that I do not have to fully qualify >>> nor apply use clause. >> And one advantage of use clause is that you don't have to use prefix >> notation ;-) > > It is true. However, using use clause does not fit advantage category. > In addition, the side effect of using use clause, for most cases, > leans toward disadvantage side :-( > A common opinion, but far from being universal (although voiced louder than the opposite). For those of us who do not write Level-A software, use clauses increase readability, while keeping precise control over name space by opening visibility at the innermost level where it is needed. Of course, this assume that you use use clauses properly, and not after each with clause! -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr