import concerns (was Re: Historical language survey)

[Derek Parnell]

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:12:07 +1000, Walter Bright  
<newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> I must contested the proposed named by Walter. "static import" seems a  
>> pretty crappy name, there is nothing "static" about it. Do we have to  
>> recycle existing keywords? I'm not very much into this phobia of  
>> introducing new keywords. You didn't have a problem introducing  
>> "scope"... :P
>
> Turns out, "scope" was a problem. It broke a lot of my code - a lot more  
> than I'd anticipated.

Hint: Using identifier names that have at least one upper case character  
in them reduces conflicts with D keywords.

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia