Re: Manifesto against Vector

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
:>And if there is redundancy
:>in explicitness, this does help analysing, understanding, and
:>debugging programs, doesn't it?
: 
: Not at all. In most cases it is just an importunate noise.
: 
:>In particular if the program text
:>is not correct.
: 
: How could that help, keeping in mind, that use-haters are pushing for
: using full names everywhere?

Does the 3k lines body of package X depend on Foo.Bar, or
is there an occurence of the string Foo.Bar somewhere in the
body of package X?

If this argument were taken to Eiffel, would you want the compiler
to figure out what the inheritance relations for the class
in question is, by having it analyse the class and its closure?
That is instead of specifying what the inheritance hierarchy 
(and thus package dependeces) is?


-- Georg