Library linking (request)

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Jeremy" <Jeremy_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
news:du0gvn$98o$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> Merge all that functionality into one keyword -- for example, you 
> shouldn't have
> to tell the compiler anything more than 'I want to use this external 
> source'.
> One line would tell the compiler you want to link/import a file, and that 
> all
> symbols are to be loaded from that library that are referenced in the 
> program.
> You might want to deprecate the current 'import', 'extern' and 'pragma' 
> (pragma
> probably has other uses?) for an all-in-one 'reference' keyword that would 
> work
> something like:
>
> reference "alleg40.dll"
> reference "gameclasses.d"
> reference "libusb.a"
> reference "phobos.lib"
>
> The library type could be extracted by the file extension. That just looks
> awesome :) You have to agree... :)

That would be great.  Although, why not just keep import?

import std.string;
import "alleg40.dll";

And yes, pragma does have other uses (it's a general-purpose compiler 
directive statement).