Anonymous wrote: > > > >The choice of names. "With" should be "use" or "uses" (the latter is > > > >from UCSD Pascal, I think). "Use" should be I-don't-know-what, but > > > >something other than "use". Then, when I say, "Package X uses package > > > >Y", you wouldn't be confused as to whether I mean "Package X makes use > > > >of package Y (i.e. X is a client of Y)", versus "There's a use_clause on > > > >package X saying 'use Y'". And we avoid the verbing of "with", as in > > > >"Package X withs package Y." (or is it "with's"?) which sounds horrible > > > >in English. "To with" ain't a verb, in English. ;-) > > > use X; view X; > > uses X; localize X; -- ?? (as in "local phone call") > To avoid new resoived woids: > use X; access X; > use X; in X; -- Pretend this code is "in" X > use X; raise X; -- "raise" the visibility of X > With a new reserved word: > use X; open X; use X; tutoie X; -- pays tribute to Jean Ichbiah use X; dutche x; -- for the Germans ('Dutchen' is to be on informal terms wso) use X; intimate X; -- Groeten, Karel Th�nissen Member of the international brigade against Anglo-American cultural imperalistic denial of the diacritical marks 8-) -- my e-mail address is scrambled to confuse spammers -- remove the confusion to obtain my true address