On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:04:34 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> I prefer to use the long name of a package when I call some of its
> functions.

[...]

> i.e. I really want to just write
>
> x * y

Which is in a clear contradiction to what you stated first. "*" is a name
of a function.

> where x,y are variables with types defined in the package, and not write
>
> x package_foo("*") y

Package_Foo."*" (X, Y)

> This is annoying.

There is a restricted form of use which brings up only operations of a
type:

use type Package_Foo.Float_Type;
X, Y : Package_Foo.Float_Type;
begin
... X * Y ... -- This is OK now

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