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I use PL/SQL a fair bit, which was inspired by Ada. Unfortunately, the designers did not bring over

ShortName is New ReallyLongAndAwkardName;

Ah, well.

> I use PL/SQL a fair bit, which was inspired by Ada. I have a bit of a project-idea here: PL/SQL+Ada+VHDL all together in an IDE.

> Unfortunately, the designers did not bring over > ShortName is New ReallyLongAndAwkardName; Do you mean renames? Package Text renames Ada.Strings.Fixed;

IIRC, RENAME is in the keywords list for PL/SQL.

RENAME is a command in Oracle SQL. I see in the documentation that PL/SQL gives it as a "keyword", not as a "reserved word". This means, I gather that you can name a subprogram as RENAME, though Oracle recommends against it. You could not, on the other hand name a subprogram INSERT, unless you double-quoted it--which, again, Oracle recommends against.

Some things are partially implemented:

  - type BOOLEAN is (FALSE, TRUE);
  - type VARCHAR2 is NEW CHAR_BASE;
  - generic collections
  - varargs

Unfortunately, they are only available for the PL/SQL team itself.

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