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Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
From: "C. Daniel Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:15:01 -0700
Reply-To: "C. Daniel Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mike Brenner wrote,

> Here is another statistic. To add it up carefully, you must not
> just grep on the word with. You must filter out comments nad
> quoted string and variable containing the word with as a substring.
>
> There was another thing to filter out: withs that were temporarily
> commented out. I uncommented 5 withs for this count, because they
> are uncommented for certain ports, since Ada does not have
> conditional compilation.

Of course, the counting also needs to consider that a context clause
of the form "WITH Foo, Bar;" should count as *two* not one: the actual
motivation is to reduce the number of dependencies, not the the number
of clauses per se. So when we talk about the number of WITHs that a unit
has, we really intend to refer to the the number of units it depends on.
Such counting is simplified by coding standards that disallow multiple
unit WITH clauses.

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