What is "stringImportPaths"
mrphobby
mrp at spinrock.net
Fri Dec 8 20:10:44 UTC 2017
On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 09:47:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
> On 2017-12-06 20:05, mrphobby wrote:
> There are two kinds of language constructs that uses the
> "import" keyword. One is the "Import Declaration" [1] which is
> the most common one and is used to import other symbols. The
> other language construct is the "Import Expression" [2], which
> is used to read a file at compile time and put its content into
> a string literal in your source code.
>
> Anything specified to the "stringImportPaths" build setting
> will be sent to the compiler with the -J flag.
>
> [1] https://dlang.org/spec/module.html#ImportDeclaration
> [2] https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#import_expressions
Ok thanks! I couldn't find that in the docs so kudos for pointing
me to it.
I still think using the word "import" is confusing. Would rather
have it called "load" or something. But at least I understand it
now :)
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