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From: porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:32:23 +0500
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Subject: Re: Let's change semantics of "use type"
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In article <4519e058.0211110759.3ebbf128@posting.google.com>,
	dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes:
> porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton) wrote in message news:<3dcb8347$0$299$bed64819@news.gradwell.net>...
>
>> designators in an expression) and error-prone as one may forget y in
>> x.y.z (mistakedly writing x.z) and get wrong behavior of the program.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure how that could happen. Routines can't be
> "primitive" and exist in different packages. So the situation you
> envision would not make it past the compiler.

I am not about primitive operations here, but just about
any multi-level designators.