From: xl@home.com
Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing
Date: 2000/02/29
Date: 2000-02-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38BC55F7.D3647B92@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38BC2AC9.9967925B@acm.org
Sorry... Operat'ors'.
Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>
> 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 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Simon Wright
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 Dewar
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-06 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-03-07 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
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
2000-02-29 0:00 ` xl
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Jeffrey Carter
2000-02-29 0:00 ` xl [this message]
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Roger Hoyle
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
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