Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <8a0hio$qos$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> In article <1e6xw1b.crkgd5nhvbzuN%claveman@inetworld.net>,
>   claveman@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote:
> >      M. Rosen modestly omits that he wrote a very good paper several
> > years ago arguing in favor of the use clause.  While I was already a
> > strong use-phile before reading the paper, it clarified a number of
> > ideas that I had understood only instinctively.  I haven't read it
>
> I read that too. It seems to me that the whole argument hinged on the
> availability of tools to find declarations automaticly. So we are

Hmmm. It occurs to me that it would actually be far easier to write a
tool that can hide or show leading package names upon user request. You
don't need any fancy compiler interface or even compiling code to do
that.

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