From: Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing
Date: 2000/02/29
Date: 2000-02-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38BC2AC9.9967925B@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38BC11AB.3733FF5A@home.com
xl@home.com wrote:
>
> Actually, the idea of not "Use"ing packages is quite common. But you
> are right, the effect of not pulling in the operators for defined types
> can get a bit irritating. My project saw this early on and allows the
> use of the "use type xxxx;" statement to circumvent the need for the
> functional notation use of operators such as ">=" etc... The 'use type'
> statement has the effect of providing visibility to all operations on
> the type specified without haveing to resort to a general use clause on
> the entire package surrounding the type in question. Quite handy and
> much more readable.
This is incorrect: "use type" does not provide visibility to "all
operations". Use type provides visibility to operators; operations that
are not operators still require dot notation.
Jeff Carter
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-29 0:00 'with'ing and 'use'ing Roger Hoyle
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Jeffrey Carter
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-02 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-02 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-02 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Stuart Palin
2000-03-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-09 0:00 ` Stuart Palin
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-06 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-29 0:00 ` xl
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2000-02-29 0:00 ` xl
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Roger Hoyle
2000-02-29 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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