From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: question on using `with` without `use` and visibility of operators such as '*'
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:33:09 +0200
Date: 2012-07-30T08:33:09+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bveovwgu26yx$.p0ejnzxridmz.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jv585h$9tj$1@speranza.aioe.org
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:04:34 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> I prefer to use the long name of a package when I call some of its
> functions.
[...]
> i.e. I really want to just write
>
> x * y
Which is in a clear contradiction to what you stated first. "*" is a name
of a function.
> where x,y are variables with types defined in the package, and not write
>
> x package_foo("*") y
Package_Foo."*" (X, Y)
> This is annoying.
There is a restricted form of use which brings up only operations of a
type:
use type Package_Foo.Float_Type;
X, Y : Package_Foo.Float_Type;
begin
... X * Y ... -- This is OK now
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2012-07-30 6:04 question on using `with` without `use` and visibility of operators such as '*' Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-30 6:30 ` Niklas Holsti
2012-07-30 6:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-07-30 6:50 ` Ludovic Brenta
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