Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/22/11 11:29 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-12-22 17:50, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/22/11 4:40 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> It would break code, but it's better to break it sooner than later.
>>> Seems more and more like D should support importing all modules in a
>>> package, that Java does:
>>>
>>> import foo.*;
>>
>> I think this style is currently discouraged in Java.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Well, it seems like everyone wants it and there are several libraries
> that supports "import foo.all;" to include the whole "foo" package,
> including some of my own.

The authors of Java apparently thought the same. It is _experience_ with 
the actual feature that turned out to be bad. Last time I used Eclipse 
it underlined with red the lines with .*.


Andrei