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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing
Date: 2000/02/29
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In article <wcc900324d1.fsf@world.std.com>,
  Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> rh@signal.dera.gov.uk (Roger Hoyle) writes:

> The trick is a little bit dangerous, because the code in the Ops
> package is so boring that the reader assumes it says the obvious,
> without reading it carefully.  I remember spending some time tracking
> down a bug caused by saying something like ``function "xor"(...)
> renames "and";'' -- a cut-and-paste error.

I can vouch from personal experience that the *other* Ada83 trick
(renaming the functions) is succeptable to that exact same bug. :-(

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