From: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Enumeration literal visibility and use type
Date: 1998/05/26
Date: 1998-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6kf0r3$isj$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6kensr$fqq$1@hermes.seas.smu.edu
bralick@seas.smu.edu (William Bralick) writes:
>John McCabe <jgm@hayling.cwmbran.gecm.com| wrote:
>|... the "use type" clause is designed to provide
>|visibility to the OPERATORS of the type, NOT the type itself so the
>|behaviour you are seeing is correct.
>
>Yes ... and I had understood that visibility of the type name was still
>restricted (one would always need to write doodah.state_value_type), but
>I was convinced that the enumerals themselves would be visible to avoid
>(1) the use of the "use clause" or (2) defining a series of named constants.
What's wrong with (3) just using explicit module qualifiers?
>So once again, I am merely asking for a reference to some documentation
>that might describe _why_ OPERATORS only were made visible
Because explicit module qualifiers on OPERATORS look very ugly.
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1998-05-26 0:00 ` Enumeration literal visibility and use type William Bralick
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
1998-05-27 0:00 ` William Bralick
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Peter Amey
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-28 0:00 ` Thomas Hood
1998-05-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-26 0:00 William Bralick
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-05-27 0:00 ` William Bralick
1998-05-26 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-26 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-26 0:00 ` John English
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-26 0:00 ` Roger Racine
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