The D Scripting Language

[Alexander Malakhov]

Leandro Lucarella <luca at llucax.com.ar> писал(а) в своём письме Sat, 13 Nov  
2010 21:13:42 +0600:

> retard, el 13 de noviembre a las 08:24 me escribiste:
>> > void main(string[] args){
>> >
>> > 	import std.stdio; // 1. will not compile>       void main(string[]  
>> args){
>> > 		writeln("hello");
>> > 	}
>>
>> <...> the 1) point make me ask, why
>> imports can't be used inside methods just like in Scala. There's no
>> technical reason other than "this adds bugs!"

Maybe it will somehow affect compile time or complicate module dependency  
analysis ?

> Python allows that too, that's why I opened an enhancement request:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3506
>
> As the bugzilla issue shows, this is particularly annoying when combined
> with unittest.

Even if there are technical issues, special case for unit tests sounds  
like a good improvement of usability

-- 
Alexander