including a file

[Christopher Wright]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> 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.

If your filename is not a legal identifier, you can make it compile 
anyway by providing a module statement. I don't know how that works with 
imports.