From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: overloading operators Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:24:49 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <3e2acd57-a8c6-4e89-8d69-572cf4396aec@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: V1inN/299uPbHAesdcbRXA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:54904 Date: 2018-11-26T19:24:49+01:00 List-Id: On 2018-11-26 19:03, Simon Wright wrote: > Anh Vo writes: > >> On Thursday, November 22, 2018 at 12:18:06 AM UTC-8, briot.e...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> You can always say e.g. Ada.Numerics.Real_Arrays."*" (A, B) but it is >>>> rather clumsy compared to A * B! >>> >>> >>> The main use I have for that notation is in expression functions in specs, >>> since we try to avoid use clauses in specs. So for instance: >>> >>> function Greater (A, B : Some_Package.My_Type) return Some_Package.My_Type >>> is (Some_Package.">" (A, B)); >> >> What is wrong with "use type clause"? > > Nothing, but OP was asking about what qualifications are available Then I think one forgot qualification of the arguments: ... is (Some_Package.">" (Some_Package.Greater.A, Some_Package.Greater.B)); -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de