[Oberon] Module aliases - what is the correct way to handle them

August Karlstrom fusionfile at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 22:35:42 CEST 2020


On 2020-07-14 09:24, Jörg wrote:
> Now back to topic A): the Oberon report states „If the form "M := M1" is used in the import list, an exported object x declared within M1 is referenced in the importing module as M.x
> This definition does not specify, whether IMPORT M := M1, N := M1; is allowed.
> Looking at other Oberon constructs like
>    CONST
>      S = “This is a funny string“;
>      S1 = S;
>      S2 = S;
> or
>    TYPE
>      I1 = INTEGER;
>      I2 = INTEGER;
> I don‘t see a reason why import aliases should forbid multiple imports.

I think I'm now convinced that it makes sense to allow repeated imports 
of the same module with different qualifiers. Does anyone see any 
potential problems with it?

-- August


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