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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c2f62556e56c9683 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing Date: 2000/03/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 592332310 Sender: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) References: <38BC2EB3.2639372B@acm.org> <89l6aj$s5e$1@wanadoo.fr> <38BE974F.B8FAFEBE@earthlink.net> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Charles Hixson writes: > A nice technique here is to use the full name the first time that the name is > referenced. This informs the browser of where the name is to be found. > Subsequent uses can then abbreviate the notation to just the name. The use > clause allows the compiler to do this, and the first fully named use allows the > reader to understand it in context. Hmm. I don't think I like that idea. If I saw: Some_Package.Grind_Upon_Data(...); ... Grind_Upon_Data(...); I would tend to think there must be two different (overloaded) things called Grind_Upon_Data. - Bob