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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/19
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In article <37934672.E401493E@averstar.com>,
  Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:
> Ted Dennison wrote:

> > Ohhhhh. I *like* that idea. Currently "use type" seems a bit sloppy.
>
> I can't think of a type where "<" is appropriate but ">" is not.
> Can you give a realistic example?  This seems like overkill,
> IMHO.

Well...no.

My angle on this was that as a developer I much prefer explicitly
stating what I'm getting from where. Using full dot notation for
packages is part of that. In the case of "use type", I'd feel a lot
better saying which routines I need, rather that using a construct that
in effect says, "give me all the operations, whatever they may be."

But you are right. I can't think of a good example where getting "="
would be fine, but I don't want "-". Perhaps my Modula-2 bias is just
acting up again. (I'd better get that checked...)

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T.E.D.


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