Proposal for custom time string formatting in std.datetime

[Stewart Gordon]

On 26/12/2011 12:51, zhang wrote:
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> The compiler should do this. A package is a directory, and a module just a file.
> When importing a package, the compiler will import all the modules in the package.
> The user doesn't care about this.

The user may well care if he/she is compiling someone else's project 
that imports the whole of some huge library despite using only a little 
bit of it, and this greatly increases the time it takes to compile. 
Both because of the time it takes to load the modules and because of 
having a larger symbol table to look through to resolve symbols as and 
when they are used.

Moreover, there may be modules that are intended primarily for a 
library's internal use, which would get imported and thereby clutter the 
symbol table.

Stewart.