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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm?? Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 11:56:46 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> <87o9i2pkcr.fsf@nightsong.com> <87in88m43h.fsf@nightsong.com> <87efiuope8.fsf@nightsong.com> <322f9b26-01de-4753-bb50-6ef2f3d993d8@googlegroups.com> <87a7th9pd1.fsf@nightsong.com> <87h8no1nli.fsf@nightsong.com> <87po2cyty7.fsf@nightsong.com> <87bmdwhwob.fsf@nightsong.com> <6746d7d1-406e-4891-8293-9424aed76215@googlegroups.com> <877eoezy6e.fsf@nightsong.com> <87y3gun1ha.fsf@nightsong.com> <87603yy0wr.fsf@nightsong.com> <244b242a-09a8-48d2-918b-77e9b171098f@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: TKk5kT01+2w6guVcOjcsiQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 Openpgp: preference=signencrypt X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Content-Language: fr Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:52154 Date: 2018-05-09T11:56:46+02:00 List-Id: Le 09/05/2018 à 11:27, Björn Lundin a écrit : > On 2018-05-08 22:24, J-P. Rosen wrote: >> Anyway, it's just a minuscule improvement to writing, with no new >> feature and no benefit in reading. > I disagree. It is more than that > I affects 'with' statments sometimes. That's a good point, however if you have a variable of a type declared in another package, I think it is extremely unlikely that you don't need to "with" the package for some other reason (like, in your example, simply assigning a value to the variable). -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr