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Subject: Re: [RFC] Initial pass at supporting the Go language
From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
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On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> This patch is a first pass at supporting the Go language.
>> There's still lots to do, but this is a start.
>
> From the comments, I can see that you have a feature
> that is similar to what we have in Ada, namely to be able to
> use the unqualified name of an entity. For instance, if you have
> a variable foo in package bar, you want to be able to write
> either, you want to be able to use either "print bar" or
> "print foo.bar".

That's the intent.