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From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
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Russ wrote:
> Suppose I want to take the sine of an angle in Java. Can I somehow set
> things up so that I can simply write "sin(x)", or must I write
> something like "math.sin(x)"? The former is acceptable to me, but the
> latter is not.

The latter generally. Also for cases like this, 'math' would be a class,
not an object, and 'sin' would be a static method. If that's too odious,
you can always do this:

     class MotherOfAnythingIWouldEverCall
     {
         double sin(double x) { return math.sin(x); }
         // etc.
     }

     class MyClass extends MotherOfAnythingIWouldEverCall
     {
         double f(double x) { return sin(sin(x)); }
     }

But no one would do that. Just pretend you're using Ada in a shop
that has forbidden use clauses.