From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Subject: question on using `with` without `use` and visibility of operators such as '*'
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:04:34 -0500
Date: 2012-07-30T01:04:34-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jv585h$9tj$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
<warning, newbie in Ada>
I prefer to use the long name of a package when I call some of its
functions. So I like to write
------------------------
with package_foo;
package_foo.function_name();
-----------------------
rather than
-----------------------
with package_foo; use package_foo;
function_name();
----------------------
So that when reading the code, I know where things are.
This worked well so far, but when the package happened to export
functions/operators such as '*' or "+" for the types, then it will
not work any more. i.e. I really want to just write
x * y
where x,y are variables with types defined in the package, and not write
x package_foo("*") y
(or whatever the correct syntax would be)
This is annoying. It means I have now to `use package_foo`
to be able to write x*y, since "*" is defined in the package.
Is there a way around this, so I can avoid using `use` but still
be able to just write x * y (may be use something like
`use package_foo("*") at the top if this possible)
I can provide example if needed. The error I get are of the form
there is no applicable operator "*" for type .....
This error goes away when I add `use package_foo`
(Ada is so picky !)
thanks,
--Nasser
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2012-07-30 6:04 Nasser M. Abbasi [this message]
2012-07-30 6:30 ` question on using `with` without `use` and visibility of operators such as '*' Niklas Holsti
2012-07-30 6:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-30 6:50 ` Ludovic Brenta
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