>>>>> "DW" == David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  DW> On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 05:30  AM, Damian Conway wrote:
  >> Sure. But the right solution is to permanently eliminate the
  >> sesquipedalian
  >> name (so you don't have to retype it for every single typed variable):
  >> 
  >> class Date is Really::Long::Package::Name::Ugh;

  DW> Oh, that's nice. As long as one is careful about not creating
  DW> conflicting class names...

but you should always know the classes you are using in a file. and i
expect that is a lexical map/transform which shouldn't affect the symbol
table. so only in this file/scope would Date be an alias to that long
class name.

uri

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