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On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:42:31PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
"At 12:47 PM 11/29/2004, Harbaugh, John S wrote:
[..]
>[..]  Fully qualified dot naming, [..]
[..]
>all contribute to a mindset that values programs which read like
>structured English.

I agree with this to a point.  My one argument, though, is that people
(even Ada people) seem to ignore the use of fully-qualified names whenever
they can.  I find this "wordiness" to be one of the most useful aspects of
the language.  Nearly every time I download an example Ada program from the
net it seems to start with "with X; use X;", leading to potentially
confusing code.

[..]"

I am also disappointed that Ada programmers often use use clauses.

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