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In article <1812@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Duncan C White)
writes:
 
>The other irritating aspect of what Robert suggests is that you either
>need to qualify each constant by it's module name, or need to name all
>the constants in the import list, which is an awful lot of typing.
 
When I hear complaints about long names and "qualidents" in Modula-2, my
stock reply is this: What do you think modern editing tools are for?  If
you're writing a new piece of code and want to avoid keystrokes, use the
IMPORT <modulename> statement, and pick a short, simple mnemonic for each
of the strings you wish to avoid retyping.  When you reach a convenient
stopping point, use your editor's search and replace function to correct
those nasty, unfriendly little strings to their meaningful, elegant 
forms.
 



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