[frustration, sorry] Import conflict madness.

[Derek Parnell]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:58:27 +1000, Bruno Medeiros  
<brunodomedeirosATgmail at SPAM.com> wrote:

> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>
>>> Also notice that it's considering *private* imports, which shouldn't  
>>> even be available to test.d.
>>  This has been broken for a *long* time now. Both "private" and  
>> "package" are just ignored by DMD for at least the last 5 or 6  
>> releases. It used to work but now it doesn't.
>>  --Derek Parnell
>> Melbourne, Australia
>
> 5 or 6 releases? Far more than that, this bug  
> (http://d.puremagic.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48) was reported for  
> DMD .149 and it was broken I don't know how many releases even before  
> that.

I was being generous and polite ;-)

> You said it used to work? When?

The 'private' used to work at one stage because I tripped up on it. What  
one has to remember is that private restricts access but not visiblity.  
The 'package' qualifier has never worked AFAIK.



-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia