Import concerns revisited
Paolo Invernizzi
arathorn at NOSPAM_fastwebnet.it
Tue Jul 11 00:17:17 PDT 2006
Walter Bright wrote:
> Import does not import names into the current namespace. It imports them
> into a secondary namespace, that is looked in *only* if the name isn't
> found in the current namespace. Alias can then cherry-pick specific
> symbols out of that secondary namespace and put them in the current
> namespace, possibly renaming them along the way.
This is the best explanation of import I've seen so far! It made the
current import semantic crystal clear. I suggest to cut-n-past it in the
documentation.
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Paolo
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