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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> In the case of my previous example, if you find a way to move the
> useless "with P" from the Q's spec to its body, then you can gain a
> lot in terms of this reduction (in particular, Test becomes no longer
> dependent on P). This phenomenon is very real and proactive
> application of such techniques is essential to effective physical
> design. This applies to both Ada and C++.

I do agree, but GNAT has become quite good about warning of "can move
with to body", "useless use type" (the latter is quite annoying, GCC 8 &
CE 2018 both warn on code I thought was OK, grr .. but I fix it anyway).