Re: Help: Binary operator "="

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Adrian says

<<The compiler says: Line 467: Binary operator "=" not directly visible, use
 clause
might be needed.>>


The error message seems pretty clear. You are using the operator "=" without
qualifying it, you need to write

   packagename."="(x,y)

If you are allergic to all use clauses, then this is the only solution
(well you can introduce a local renaming so that you only need to do the
qualification once in the usual manner).

For reasons that have never been clear to me, folks who absolutely insist
on dotting stuff in general so that they know where it is don't want to
write dots on ooperators. To help out these folks, the use type clause
is introduced in Ada 95, which allows you to use the operators without
using anything else.