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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: advice on package design
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On 17 Mar 2005 09:04:26 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

>> I agree with the idea, but I think that hiding should appear in a
>> declarative part. Less probably it should also qualify the thing being
>> hidden (like renames does):
> 
> I don't believe in declarative parts.  I think declare/begin/end
> should not be required just because I want to declare a constant
> or something.

Disagree. I don't like the idea of something changing its meaning within
the same scope, even if that is non-existing -> exiting. I have to tolerate
this in a declarative region because probably there is no better way to do
it. But I don't want to let it leak out of the quarantine zone.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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