Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> You do need a compiler interface for a dotifier, since you
> need to know what package things come from. The ali information
> is certainly convenient for writing this tool.
> 
> The undotifier is harder since it has to know about potential
> ambiguities.
> 
Doing it in "fully-auto" mode may prove to be difficult or ambiguous, so
why not rely on brain-juice? If I start by typing in a fully qualified
name and then highlight it and tell the editor "show this as a
short-name unless otherwise directed" (or infix operator, or whatever)
It would let me pick and choose which qualified names I wanted shortened
and which should remain as-is.

The only problem I see is that the editor would have to store this
information in some manner with the code. You want the code to
ultimately be plain old ascii so that it works with the compiler and
other tools, but you'd want to embed markers in the text to indicate
what needs shortening, etc.

MDC
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