Re: How do I avoid 'use' in this case?

[garym@telesoft.com (Gary Morris @ignite)]

In <1993Mar11.163904.18135@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@fcom.cc.utah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:
>We have a package called 'FIELD_DEF' which (among other things) defines a
>variant record type and an access type for referencing it.  Here is the
>text of the errors generated for one of the lines:

> 2693             if (comm_addr_group(i,j) /= NULL) then
>..........................................1
>%ADAC-E-NOTDECLOPOPND, (1) /= is not declared for the given operands [LRM 4.5]

>I know that with non-operator functions (i.e.:
>functions who's names are alphanumeric + '_'), you can use the package name
>to avoid 'use'.  As far as I know, there is no equivalent for operators.

This is not true, you can qualify operators with the package name.  We
mostly consider it not very readable so we use renames of the operator
instead. 

Either of these will work:
	
	if Field_Def."/="(comm_addr_group(i,j), NULL) then

Or add this rename in your package to allow your original code above to work,
this makes the "=" (and implicitly the "/=") operators visible (replace
Record_Type_Name with the actual name of the type):

    function "="(L,R: Field_Def.Record_Type_Name) return Boolean
      renames Field_Def."=";

        if comm_addr_group(i,j) /= NULL then

--GaryM
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