imports in functions

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Fri Jun 17 05:26:14 PDT 2011


On 2011-06-12 23:15, Walter Bright wrote:
> Nobody seems to have noticed yet, but yesterday I removed the
> restriction preventing import declarations from being used in functions.
> These now work:
>
> void test1()
> {
> import std.c.stdio;
> printf("hello world\n");
> }
>
> void test2()
> {
> static import std.c.stdio;
> std.c.stdio.printf("hello world\n");
> }
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/d5fbd53aa8d8452dce2514944575e654d387477a
>
>
> I believe this can lead to better encapsulation of code, especially when
> using mixins, versioning and other conditional compilation constructs.

This is awesome.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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