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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Refactoring and Ada
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Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> writes:

> I have already posted my reasons for this in another message in
> this thread.   My use of the word, "dangerous" may be a bit of
> an exaggeration, but I do think renames is sometimes a better
> option than use type -- not always -- but as my other posts
> suggests, sometimes.

For what it's worth, the language design team wanted to make the
behavior of "use type" happen without saying *anything*.  Tucker
invented "use type" as a compromise: many were worried about the upward
incompatibility.

- Bob