Proposal: this.d

[Don Clugston]

Janice Caron wrote:
>     Doesn't seem worth it, to me.
> 
> 
> Well, consider that you initially create a package called
> x
> 
> Now the module is imported by
> import x;
> 
> and then, and some later stage, the project gets bigger, and you want to 
> throw extra source files into the mix. The desirable thing is to store 
> all those extra source files in a subdirectory called x, but that's not 
> permitted because x exists. So you move x into your new subdirectory - 
> but now it has to be refered to as x.x, so existing code which imports x 
> breaks, and you have to recompile it all -- which may not even be 
> possible if x is a published library, and the source code which imports 
> it is out of your hands.

eg, when x is std.math.

(This is why Tango has tango.math.Math, introducing an incompatibility with Phobos).