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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/01
Date: 1999-07-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7lg0sg$g8q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7lfvbk$fhh$1@nnrp1.deja.com

In article <7lfvbk$fhh$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  czgrr <czgrr@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <377B5807.88B875E0@cs.york.ac.uk>,
>   Neil.Audsley@cs.york.ac.uk wrote:
> > Ideally, we would like to eliminate "use" clauses, necessitating the
> > replacement of each procedure call X by PackageName.X instead.
> > Is there a tool that does this?
>
> P.S. Watch out for operators. Having added all the "package_name."s,
it
> sometimes makes for better readability if you re-introduce the "use"
> (globally or in specific routines) solely for the purpose of accessing
> operators. Remember to comment it as such.

Good point. But as a fellow "use-phobe", I think Neil would probably
prefer to put in "use type" statements to get access to the comparison
and mathematical operators that he will loose when the "use" clauses are
removed.

But YMMV.

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T.E.D.


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  reply	other threads:[~1999-07-01  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-01  0:00 Elimination of "use" clauses Dr. Neil C. Audsley
1999-07-01  0:00 ` czgrr
1999-07-01  0:00   ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-07-02  0:00     ` czgrr
1999-07-02  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-01  0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-07-01  0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-07-02  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-02  0:00   ` Ed Falis
1999-07-03  0:00     ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-07-03  0:00       ` Keith Thompson
1999-07-03  0:00       ` Ed Falis
1999-07-13  0:00     ` Peter Amey
1999-07-02  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02  0:00     ` Stephen Leake
1999-07-02  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]       ` <7ltus1$ah1@dfw-ixnews19.ix.netcom.com>
1999-07-13  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-18  0:00           ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-18  0:00             ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-07-20  0:00               ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-19  0:00                 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-20  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-20  0:00                     ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-21  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-21  0:00                         ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-22  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-22  0:00                             ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-22  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-22  0:00                             ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-21  0:00                       ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-21  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-21  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-21  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-21  0:00                       ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-21  0:00                         ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-23  0:00                 ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-03  0:00                   ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-20  0:00               ` David Kristola
1999-07-18  0:00             ` jerry
1999-07-19  0:00               ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-07-20  0:00               ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-20  0:00                 ` jerry
1999-07-20  0:00                 ` Opaque Types (was Elimination of "use" clauses) David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-07-19  0:00             ` Elimination of "use" clauses Ted Dennison
1999-07-19  0:00               ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-19  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02  0:00     ` Ed Falis
1999-07-02  0:00   ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-07-02  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]       ` <7ltl2q$mog$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
1999-07-08  0:00         ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-09  0:00           ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-09  0:00             ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-09  0:00             ` Marin David Condic
1999-07-09  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-09  0:00             ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-07-12  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-12  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-09  0:00             ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-14  0:00               ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-10  0:00             ` Simon Wright
1999-07-12  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-08  0:00       ` R. Tim Coslet
1999-07-09  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-09  0:00           ` tmoran
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