Module name compile time constant?

[Bill Baxter]

Walter Bright wrote:
> davidl wrote:
>>
>> module abc.super.long.pack.awesome.mod;
>>
>> what if i need the string of "abc.super.long.pack.awesome.mod" 
>> generally and don't want to copy paste differently in all my modules?
> 
> alias abc.super.long.pack.awesome.mod foo;

I think he wants that full module name as a char[], though.

Is that what you want, Davidl?

Or do you just want to be able to say


    import short.awesome; // aka "import abc.super.long.pack.awesome.mod"

If that's what you want you can create a module in short/awesome.d that 
contains just:

   module short.awesome;
   public import abc.super.long.pack.awesome.mod;

But somehow I'm thinking you actually want to automatically get that 
module name as a string.

How about going the other way around?  Start with a string?

string foo = "abc.super.long.pack.awesome.mod";
mixin(import_module(foo));

where import_module  is

string import_module(string name) {
    return "import " ~ name ";" ;
}

If those don't answer your question you're gonna have to be more specific.


--bb