From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: "use" clauses and Ada 95 OOP
Date: 1996/07/21
Date: 1996-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Duwu74.L3n@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31F170FC.672C@csehp3.mdc.com
In article <31F170FC.672C@csehp3.mdc.com>,
James A. Squire <m193884@CSEHP3.MDC.COM> wrote:
>I liked the idea of "use type" when I thought it only referred to
>implicit operations like "&", "+", "=" (operations that I wish the Ada
>designers had made a part of the language proper so we wouldn't have any
>need for the use clause).
Your earlier impression was correct. "Use type" only works for
(primitive) operators, like "&", "+", etc. It does not work for
operations called "func" or whatever.
An earlier version of Ada 9X proposed to make primitive operators
automatically visible -- sort of as if "use type" were always there by
magic. However, this would have been upward incompatible in some rare
cases. The "use type" feature was invented as a compromise.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-17 0:00 "use" clauses and Ada 95 OOP Mitch Gart
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-07-23 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-07-25 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-19 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen Schmid
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Kevin J. Weise
1996-07-23 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Kevin J. Weise
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-25 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-23 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-20 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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