Re: Clause "with and use"

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net>]

Robert Spooner wrote:

> Perhaps you should call it an entropy number rather than a goodness 
> number. :)

Actually my name for it is a coupling measure.  The higher the number, 
the more tightly coupled a system is.  In Ada high coupling for systems 
is bad, but high coupling within a subsystem can be good if it results 
in low coupling elsewhere.

Also that is why I refer to it as a measure of design quality rather 
than code quality.  It is possible to do a bad job of implementing a 
design, and it is also possible in Ada for code to have lots of 
unnecessary with clauses.  But the reality does seem to be that for 
decent code the coupling measure is determined by the design, not how 
well or poorly the code itself is written.

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                                           Robert I. Eachus

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