public import and bugs it causes

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri May 14 13:55:31 PDT 2010


Alex Makhotin wrote:
>> The designer of an imported
>> module has complete control over what names will be visible to the 
>> importer and which aren't. This is as it should be.
> I don't want to deal with the bad design of someone's module.

You're always going to be stuck with the design of someone else's module if you 
choose to use it.

> For example.
> 
>> module Server.TestM2;
>> const string name = "New Name";
> 
>> module Server.TestM1;
>> public import Server.TestM2;
> 
>> module Server.Main;
>> private import Server.TestM1;
> 
> In the scope of Server.Main module the global variable 'name' is visible.
> That should not be so.

That's up to the author of TestM1. If he doesn't want the names in TestM2 to be 
visible, he should privately import TestM2.


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