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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Clause "with and use"
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:31:29 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2003-11-11, Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> Making "use" in a context clause imply "with" is not a great technical
> challenge. For Pete's sake, I could probably write a Python script in
> less than an hour to do the job (including a half hour to think about
> it, and 15 minutes to test it). Yet it would not break any existing
> code, and anyone who wants to continue doing it the old way would be
> perfectly free to do so.

But what is the point? What do you save by doing this? Absolutely
nothing. It took me 2 min to make two macros in vim which either add a
use unit or removes it.

If you are interested in fixing leaks in the roof (to use your analogy),
I suggest that is what you should worry about too. Not run around in
the shed reorganising the tools.

-- 
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
 language."