including a file

Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com
Sun Nov 9 20:59:57 PST 2008


On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:18 PM, James <james at gmail.com> wrote:
> i created to include file, 1 with 'module xxx' declaration and the other without it. but i still can import both files. what is the diff here?
>

Not a lot.  The module declaration doesn't serve much purpose.  The
only things I know it's used for is a place to attach documentation
for the module and as a way to make Rebuild shut up (it will whine
about the file that doesn't have the module declaration at the top).
Oh, and if you put an incorrect declaration on a module (say, it's
foo/bar.d but you put "module bar;" instead of "module foo.bar;"), the
compiler will sometimes barf.

I really am not too sure what it's there for.


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