From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: "use" clauses and Ada 95 OOP
Date: 1996/07/24
Date: 1996-07-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Jul23210630@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EACHUS.96Jul19102232@spectre.mitre.org
In article <4t33ro$l4n@newsbf02.news.aol.com> jamess1889@aol.com (JamesS1889) writes:
> In article <JSA.96Jul22154610@alexandria>, jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
> writes:
>
> >A use_type clause only gives "direct" visibility to primitive _operators_
> >of the type: RM 8.4(8).
>
> OK. So then would someone tell me what the following meant:
>
> In article <EACHUS.96Jul19102232@spectre.mitre.org>,
> eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
>
> > My rule is to always "use type" dispatching types. The names you
> >no longer have to qualify are the ones where the qualification would
> >be misleading.
>
> Did Robert mean what I thought he meant (in which case you are saying he
> is wrong), or did he mean something else?
When I read that, I thought he misspoke, because if literally taken it
would mean either a) he's confused/wrong or b) only defines "operator"
primitive operations for his tagged types. Neither of which seem very
likely...
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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 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Stephen Schmid
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
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 ` Kevin J. Weise
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Kevin J. Weise
1996-07-23 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-23 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-23 0:00 ` JamesS1889
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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 [this message]
1996-07-20 0:00 ` James A. Squire
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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