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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/21
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907201840120.500-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
  Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:
> spec problem. I find the idea of "special casing" the operators
inelegant;
> if anything I'd prefer that operators and functions were more alike
and
> that one could define new infix operators.

But they are *already* a special case, which is the source of the
problem. Unline nomal functions, the infix operators can no longer be
used in their expected manner (infix) when they are not directly
visible. If the following worked:
   with FooBar;
   ...
      Foo FooBar.= Bar

...then perhaps we wouldn't be having this discussion.

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