Import status

[Jari-Matti Mäkelä]

Lucas Goss wrote:
> Lucas Goss wrote:
>> solutions:
>>
>> -prefix-importing proposed (import std.string alias str)
>>   -tries to solve problem of name collisions
>>
>> -private invisible (not visible to importing modules)
>>   -tries to solve problem of name collisions by hiding modules
>>   -tries to make private more intuitive
>>
>> -private by default
>>   -tries to solve the problem of name collisions
>>   -tries to solve the problem of default gotchas
>>
> 
> I like these three. The visible private makes no sense and like someone
> else said, "is evil". And private by default along with prefix-importing
> seems to solve maintainability problems as well as being simple.

These three look best to me too.

Visible private (import) is definitely non-consistent with not importing
at all. Luckily private members are visible, but not accessible and
private imports are not visible nor accessible currently by design.

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Jari-Matti