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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/22
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In article
<Pine.BSF.4.10.9907211854070.23477-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
  Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> I'm not fond of this aspect of the language design process,
since there
> are features that I think add something to the expressiveness
of the
> language which were omitted because strong constituencies
abhorred them.


Well you seem to be saying that

a) I am not fond of the fact that useful features that I would
have liked have been omitted from the language. They should
have payed more attention to people like me.

b) I don't like the process whereby they pay attention to what
people think, and follow these recommendations

:-)


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