Formal Review of std.regex (FReD)

[Christian Kamm]

Christian Kamm wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> On 10/8/11 3:34 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>> I've found out what caused my builds to break. The thing is that both
>>> std.file & std.stdio use fully qualified std.c.stdio.func calls but
>>> never actually import std.c.stdio in any way. I wasn't even aware that's
>>> possible.
>> 
>> That may be a bug in the compiler. A symbol shouldn't be visible unless
>> e.g. publicly imported from an imported module (could that be the case)?
> 
> It's definitely a bug. Once an import is processed, the package is visible
> globally as long as the parent package is accessible.

Heh, I actually reported it a while ago and then forgot about it. :)

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6307