module vs import

Leandro Lucarella llucax at gmail.com
Sun Jun 8 18:13:24 PDT 2008


Jarrett Billingsley, el  8 de junio a las 13:54 me escribiste:
> "Tomasz Sowiñski" <tomeksowi at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:g2h5f2$1jnq$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > Robert Fraser Wrote:
> >
> >> The "module" keyword is used to assign a name to your module (which
> >> incidentally must coincide with its filename & folder structure) while
> >> "import" gives you access to the module with the given name.
> >
> > By the way, why do you have to repeat the filename in the file itself? I'm 
> > sure there must be some reason, but I can't see it now.
> >
> > Tomek
> 
> I think it might have to do with making it possible to make D work on 
> filesystems where there is no concept of "directories", such as a 
> database-oriented FS.

You mean *relational* database, right? Because hierarchical filesystems
*are* databases (hierarchical databases in fact =). LDAP is another
popular example of hierarchical database.

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