Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

Somedude lovelydear at mailmetrash.com
Fri Dec 23 02:31:47 PST 2011


Le 22/12/2011 18:36, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit :
> 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

Yes, this style *is* discouraged in Java. In Python as well.

Modern IDE's like eclipse do all the tedious work automatically for you,
so it's no longer a pain to have the full list of imports.


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