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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/01
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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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