On 2007-07-03 22:29-0700 Jerry wrote: > Ada does not propagate the "with" clause as you discovered. I've > worked in languages where this happens or can be optionally turned > on. It seems that, as with most convenience features in programming, > it comes back to bite you and ends up being more of a burden than a > convenience. I gather that the designers of Ada knew this and also > decided, in the Ada spirit of readability, that propagating "with" > was obfuscating, and indeed it is nice to be able to look at any > package and see all of the other packages that it uses, without > having to backchain through source files to discover them all.
That's fine. Thanks for the information about the necessity of this. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
