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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X "left hand side" repeater.
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:56:44 +0000 (UTC)
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Bill Findlay wrote:
> If you mean:
> 
>    Pixel renames Screen.Buffer(i) in Pixel := Pixel + 1;
> 

> Or anything like that, then:
> 
> 1. It is less concise than 'is'.

I don't think so as renames already is used in this way.

If one use "is" I would have thought :

   Screen.Buffer(i) is Pixel in Pixel := Pixel + 1;

but perhaps this is because of that Norwegian is my language and English
only the second?

> 2. More importantly, renaming declarations do not have all the necessary
> functionality and using renames for a different purpose, such as the above,
> would be inconsistent.

That is however true.


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 only dangerous, and a significant source of errors, but it also makes
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