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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing
Date: 2000/02/29
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On 29 Feb 2000 17:46:54 +0000, Roger Hoyle <rh@signal.dera.gov.uk> wrote:
>2) One of the packages defines a sub-package called Ops, which contains
>   the operators (=,/=,>=,<=) etc for some of the types in the main
>   package. The only way I seem to be able to get access to these operators
>   is to 'use' the package. Is this right, or am I missing somehting?

I'm surprised no one has mentioned it, but you can always call them
as Foo."="(a, b) without needing any form of use. I would recommend
"use type" instead, though, since you aren't bound from above. =
is a lot more elegant than Foo."=", and rarely makes it less readable.
(Of course, I probably overuse just plain "use"s, so take that with
a grain of salt.)

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
   -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU