Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

[Piotr Szturmaj]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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 .*.

I wish D could support partial modules - partial as analogy to C#'s 
partial classes.

module std.datetime-unit1;
import std.datetime-unit2;
// dash allowed only in submodules with the same module name
...

module std.datetime-unit2;
import std.datetime-unit1;
...

// then

module whatever;
import std.datetime; // as usual