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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: 'with'ing and 'use'ing
Date: 2000/03/06
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In article <8a0iam$r8a$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> 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.

You do need a compiler interface for a dotifier, since you
need to know what package things come from. The ali information
is certainly convenient for writing this tool.

The undotifier is harder since it has to know about potential
ambiguities.



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