Import concerns revisited

[Regan Heath]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:05:22 -0700, Walter Bright  
<newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
>> Oh for Bob's sake ... you mean the primary purpose of D is to write  
>> sample programs and examples? How did I miss that!!?? I thought it was  
>> to be a real language to write commercial applications with rather than  
>> an educational tool/toy. Sorry I misunderstood.
>
> I didn't mean it's useful to make D a language to teach people about  
> programming. I meant it's useful for teaching D to people.
>
> It's not always true, but languages that are less wordy in their example  
> code tend to be picked up faster. People's first projects in D aren't  
> going to be large, complex, professional products. They'll want to just  
> try it out on something simple. That bar should be as low as reasonable.

Private imports wont have any affect on the size of single file examples  
and small first programs/projects.

Regan