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From: falis@ma.aonix.com (Ed Falis)
Subject: Re: Why both "with" and "use"?
Date: 1999/02/15
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:14:39 +0100, "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Nope. Import is equivalent to a "use" clause (makes directly visible),
> but is in no way required to get accessibility.
> You can use anything without any "import" if you use expanded names.
> (which implies that it is almost impossible to know which modules are
> required by a given module).

Unless you're using a modern IDE, like Visual Age for Java, an Eiffel or Smalltalk IDE, or ObjectAda (and I believe GNAT Ada mode in Emacs?)

The point being, where should the tradeoff be between clutter in the code and tool support?  How much does it make sense to mechanize vs doing a lot of 
bookkeeping in the source code itself?

After using a variety of the tools above in the last year or so, I'm finding I don't miss fully-qualified names and context clauses in environments that don't use them.  In 
fact, it's a relief not having to deal with them as when using Ada bindings to large API sets like the JDK.

- Ed