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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/02
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In article <7lhmps$3ll$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  czgrr <czgrr@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <7lg0sg$g8q$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> "use type" - is that new in Ada95 then? Also, for us Ada83'ers, I
> suppose a "renames" declaration could be used instead of a "use" on
the
> whole package.

Exactly. "use type"'s purpose in life is pretty much to keep us
use-phobes from having to put all those operator renames at the top of
our package bodies.

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T.E.D.


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