How about Go's... error on unused imports?

[Phil Deets]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:12:49 -0500, Leandro Lucarella <llucax at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I'm sorry to bring up another "How about Go's ..." topic, but I think  
> this
> feature is very in sync with D and it should be really easy to implement.
>
> Go issues an error if you have an import that's never used, to avoid
> unnecessary dependencies.
>
> Do you see any reasons not to do that? I think it happens very often to
> stop using some import and never notice it.
>

I don't think this should be an error normally. Maybe if dmd got an  
-analyze switch that preformed extra checks with static code analysis,  
this could be one of those checks.

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