Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/22/11 3:32 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-12-22 18:36, 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 .*.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Really? I have not seen that. I have Eclipse 3.7.0 installed and it
> doesn't indicate and error with "import package.*;". Latest Eclipse is
> 3.7.1.

I stand corrected (it was a while ago and my memory is hazy). Found a 
related discussion at 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983435/eclipse-java-is-it-harmful-to-import-java-namespace

Andrei