separate and/or independent compilation

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Myron Alexander" <someone at somewhere.com> wrote in message 
news:f49mt6$1t6d$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> In D, the import statement imports a compiled module, not source.
>
> ...
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> In one sentence, modules provide the functionality of #include (and so 
> much more) but with "special" binaries rather than source.

Not exactly.  When you import a module, it will only ever look for a source 
file (.d or .di).  It never looks for compiled modules.  Once it finds a 
source file, it will lex it, parse it, and do enough semantic analysis to 
extract the symbol table, which can then be used from the current module.