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From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Why both "with" and "use"?
Date: 1999/02/19
Date: 1999-02-19T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ajsph$cra$1@platane.wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ai5br$6g3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com


robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com a �crit dans le message
<7ai5br$6g3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>In article <7ah3te$g6p$1@platane.wanadoo.fr>,
>  "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>JPR's usage above takes 8 tokens, even assuming it is only
>used once in a unit (8*N if it is used N times), and worse,
>inteferes with the clarity of the code by introducing
>extraneous junk which serves no real purpose at this point
>in the code.
Well, if you count by the token, you really should be using APL...
(sorry, couldn't resist).

In my view, the "real purpose" it serves is documenting for the reader
the places where a package is used.
If I feel that a package is used everywhere in a unit, I do put a
global use clause. If I with a package for a specific purpose in a
specific part of my code, I put the use around that part to document
that fact. "Part" maybe as small as a couple of instructions as above,
it's generally one procedure, it can be a lot more.
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           J-P. Rosen (Rosen.Adalog@wanadoo.fr)
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-02-19  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-13  0:00 Why both "with" and "use"? Mike Silva
1999-02-13  0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1999-02-13  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-13  0:00     ` Tom Moran
1999-02-14  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-13  0:00     ` bill
1999-02-14  0:00       ` dewar
1999-02-14  0:00       ` dewar
1999-02-14  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-16  0:00     ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-17  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-17  0:00       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-18  0:00         ` dennison
1999-02-18  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00             ` bourguet
1999-02-19  0:00               ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00             ` dennison
1999-02-19  0:00             ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-19  0:00               ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23  0:00                 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Brian Hanson
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00           ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-19  0:00             ` dennison
1999-02-19  0:00               ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` Ada multiple string personalities. why so many? mike
1999-02-19  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00                   ` Tom Moran
1999-02-19  0:00                     ` Mike Silva
1999-02-22  0:00                       ` Brian Hanson
1999-02-19  0:00                 ` Why both "with" and "use"? dennison
1999-02-19  0:00                   ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-02-18  0:00           ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-18  0:00             ` robert_dewar
1999-02-19  0:00               ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
1999-02-17  0:00       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-17  0:00       ` dennison
1999-02-17  0:00         ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-17  0:00         ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-13  0:00   ` mike
1999-02-13  0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-13  0:00   ` bill
1999-02-13  0:00     ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-13  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-13  0:00         ` bill
1999-02-14  0:00         ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-14  0:00           ` Bob Collins
1999-02-14  0:00             ` Pat Rogers
1999-02-16  0:00         ` Samuel Mize
1999-02-13  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-15  0:00     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-15  0:00       ` Ed Falis
1999-02-16  0:00         ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-15  0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
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