# IDEA: Allow multiple uses statements

**URL:** https://talk.remobjects.com/t/idea-allow-multiple-uses-statements/22045
**Category:** Oxygene
**Tags:** oxygene, language
**Created:** [May 21, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/idea-allow-multiple-uses-statements/22045 "2020-05-21T02:58:17Z")
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#### Post date: [May 21, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://talk.remobjects.com/t/idea-allow-multiple-uses-statements/22045/1 "2020-05-21T02:58:18Z")

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The comma separated namespace list in a `uses` statement feels somewhat out of date these days. It could be a simple enhancement to allow multiple, consecutive `uses` statements. Each statement would optionally support a comma separate list of namespaces as currently, or could identify a single namespace.

If used, multiple `uses` clauses must be contiguous. That is you could not have a `uses` statement followed by a `type` declaration followed by a further `uses` statement.

Contiguous `uses` statements would have the same effect as if they were one single statement with all namespaces listed in the order in which they occur in the separate statements.

That is:

```
uses A;
uses B;
uses C;

```

Would be equivalent to:

```
uses A, B;
uses C;

```

Which would be equivalent to:

```
uses A, B, C;

```

This would then provide flexibility in organising uses clauses which could be grouped by root namespace (for example):

```
uses
   System,
   System.Net;
uses
   Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc,
   Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
uses
   MyApp.MyNamespace;

```

Or, more practically, to list namespaces as discrete references that can be more easily modified without breaking valid termination of the statements (since each is individually moveable/removable, irrespective of current/starting position in the list).

```
uses A;
uses B;
uses C;

```

A small change (?) and granted not exactly a massive leap forward in terms of language technology, but might be worth considering ?

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