Re: Limited Use Clause

[tynor@pyr.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor)]

In article <4154@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>Steve Tynor (tynor@pyr.UUCP) writes:
>>But why limit this to only infix operators? How about borrowing an idea 
>>from Modula2?
>> 	with XYZ;
>> 	use XYZ."=", XYZ."/=", XYZ.PUSH, XYZ.POP;
>> 	package ...
>The problem is that the specifications above are not necessarily
>unique. So you have to write:
>   use XYZ."="(a, b : XYZ_type), XYZ.Push(x : some_type) ...
>which quickly gets very verbose.

This is going one step further than I suggested. I'm not convinced that it's
truly necessary. I still think importing identifiers (if they're overloaded
you get all of them) would be a useful, relatively easily implemented
addition to the language.

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