import concerns (was Re: Historical language survey)

[Bruno Medeiros]

Walter Bright 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.

Remember my Google SoC project proposal? Such a tool has the potencial 
to make such changes trivial. Just rename all names which have a name 
that has become incompatible(a keyword) to a new name:

   $ dtool @someproj rename *.scope scopefoo

In fact, couldn't DMD easily do something similar, as it already has a 
full D parser?

In any case, the good news is I will be working on such a tool, during 
the next school year (as my final degree project). :)

Hum, BTW, what lots of code did "scope" break? Phobos? I was under the 
impression you didn't have much personal code written in D.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
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