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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/08/13
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Date: 1998-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
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nospam@thanks.com.au (Don Harrison) writes:

> In Ada, is all syntax involving entities and types similarly unambiguous?
> If so, the requirement, in Ada, that an entity and it's type have different 
> names is an unnecessary one.

Almost, but not quite.  Eg, "Mumble'First" is a legal expression whether
Mumble is a type or an array object.  And "pragma Import(Eiffel, Mumble);"
is legal for practically any sort of Mumble.

- Bob
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