What Makes A Programming Language Good

[Thias]

On 18/01/11 20:26, Walter Bright wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> Adam Ruppe Wrote:
>>> Maybe. 9/10 times they match anyway, but I'd be annoyed if the package
>>> names had to match the containing folder.
>>
>> This is enforced in some languages, and I like it. It'd be confusing
>> if they
>> didn't match when I would go to look for something.
>>
>> I think it would be a good idea for D to standardise this. Not only so
>> that
>> the compiler can traverse and compile but for all dev tools (static
>> analysers, package managers, etc). Standardisation makes it easier to
>> create
>> toolchains, which I believe are essential for the growth of any
>> language use.
>
> Forcing the module name to match the file name sounds good, but in
> practice it makes it hard to debug modules. What I like to do is to copy
> a suspicious module to foo.d (or whatever.d) and link it in explicitly,
> which will override the breaking one. Then, I hack away at it until I
> discover the problem, then fix the original.

Couldn’t you do exactly the same thing by just copying the file?

cp suspicious.d suspicious.orig
edit suspicious.d