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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: question on using `with` without  `use` and visibility of
 operators such as '*'
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:33:09 +0200
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Date: 2012-07-30T08:33:09+02:00
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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

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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