"Global" imports vs scoped imports

Dicebot public at dicebot.lv
Mon Feb 10 04:21:20 PST 2014


On Monday, 10 February 2014 at 00:30:14 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Sunday, February 09, 2014 19:18:05 Dicebot wrote:
>> Usage of selective imports is also encouraged.
>
> Not so much. At least, not right now. They don't work right and 
> tend to cause
> symbol conflicts:
>
> https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=314
> https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8667

I was speaking about _both_ scoped and selective imports. 314 is 
not an issue for those at all and 8667 is relatively hard to 
trigger. Global selective imports are bad idea for sure.



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