Beta 2.079.0

meppl mephisto at nordhoff-online.de
Sat Mar 31 04:49:56 UTC 2018


On Saturday, 31 March 2018 at 00:25:47 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 08:43:50 UTC, Martin Nowak 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 19 February 2018 at 15:58:57 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> No need to use it if you don't like it. It's particularly 
>> useful for small examples, localized imports and hacking.
>> It's mainly a generalisation of the existing possibility to 
>> mix module imports and one selective import at the end.
>> If you prefer java-like 50 lines import manifests, then by all 
>> means keep using those.
>> How would that feature cause bugs though?
>
> AFAICT Rust now has introduced the exactly same feature. It's 
> quite interesting to see that there was no outcry by the 
> community and it was universally liked:
>
> https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/03/29/Rust-1.25.html
> https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44494

the curly brackets make the rust implementation more readable. 
The dmd implementation didn't use brackets. I believe that's a 
main reason for the resistance from the people


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