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From: samlb@well.UUCP (Samuel B. Bassett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Redundant import
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 01:16:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 01:16:15 1987
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In article <802@newton.physics.purdue.edu> hal@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Hal Chambers) writes:

>It is not necessary to repeat the imports in the implementation module
>since the all declarations of the definition module are automatically
>known to the implementation module.  The implementation module only
>needs to import names which are to be hidden from the definition module.

	As a followup, is it then considered a bug about which one is 
justified in screaming at the compiler writer, when objects imported in the 
DEFINITION Module are _NOT_ visible when compiling the IMPLEMENTATION Module?
	e.g. Logitech's Modula-2/86 for MS/PC-DOS.

	Or is this a matter left to the judgement/ingenuity of the implementor?
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