From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c2f62556e56c9683 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing Date: 2000/03/06 Message-ID: <8a0iam$r8a$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 593772430 References: <38BC2EB3.2639372B@acm.org> <89l6aj$s5e$1@wanadoo.fr> <1e6xw1b.crkgd5nhvbzuN%claveman@inetworld.net> <8a0hio$qos$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x31.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Mar 06 15:19:54 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 2000-03-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <8a0hio$qos$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison 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. -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.