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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: "use" clauses and Ada 95 OOP
Date: 1996/07/23
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references: <EACHUS.96Jul19102232@spectre.mitre.org>
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Date: 1996-07-23T00:00:00+00:00
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James Squire asks

"OK.  So then would someone tell me what the following meant:

In article <EACHUS.96Jul19102232@spectre.mitre.org>,
eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:

>    My rule is to always "use type" dispatching types.  The names you
>no longer have to qualify are the ones where the qualification would
>be misleading."


What it meant was that Robert Eachus never tried following his own rule :-)
As is hopefully clear from followup posts, this rule cannot work.