From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses
Date: 1999/07/21
Date: 1999-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907211854070.23477-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7n5cdr$84s$1@nnrp1.deja.com
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:
> In article
> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907201840120.500-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote:
> > Regular "use" clauses, inside of declarative regions to limit
> their scope
> > if one is worried about not being able to tell where a
> definition comes
> > from. I am not a use-phobe, though I understand that one
> should be careful
> > with use clauses (and aliasing, and overloading, and access
> types, etc.)
>
>
> OK, that's reasonable. But you have to realize that use type
> was introduced into the language SPECIFICALLY for people who
> reject the above solution. Since there are MANY such people,
> there was a strong constituency for this feature. I regard it
> as useless since I am quite content to use USE, but there are
> many Ada programmers adamantaly opposed to even your limited
> acceptable of use clauses.
I'm not fond of this aspect of the language design process, since there
are features that I think add something to the expressiveness of the
language which were omitted because strong constituencies abhorred them.
Also, Tucker Taft must have liked this enough to include it, so he really
is to blame. It wasn't designed by committee, you know :-).
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-01 0:00 Elimination of "use" clauses Dr. Neil C. Audsley
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-07-01 0:00 ` czgrr
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02 0:00 ` czgrr
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-07-03 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-07-03 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-07-03 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Peter Amey
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <7ltus1$ah1@dfw-ixnews19.ix.netcom.com>
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-18 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-18 0:00 ` jerry
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Opaque Types (was Elimination of "use" clauses) David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Elimination of "use" clauses jerry
1999-07-18 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-20 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-07-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-03 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-20 0:00 ` David Kristola
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-07-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <7ltl2q$mog$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
1999-07-08 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-07-10 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-08 0:00 ` R. Tim Coslet
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-07-09 0:00 ` tmoran
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