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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/10
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> I personally dislike these kind of package abbreviations. They
> are fine for people who know the code well, but they probably
> know where stuff is anyway.

I first came across consistent renamings like this in the GNAT sources:

  package body System.Pool_Global is

     package SSE renames System.Storage_Elements;

and thought it a pretty cool notion. is ACT changing its style, then?
(your privilege, of course!)