Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Brad Anderson]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>wrote:

> On Friday, March 09, 2012 18:39:25 Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> > I want to stress again the difference between C++'s namespaces, and D's
> > module import mechanism. In C++, you *deliberately* pull a namespace into
> > your scope (and usually only in the implementation file, which doesn't
> > affect any other implementation files), whereas in D, a standard "import
> > std.datetime" *automatically* pulls its namespace into your scope, and
> any
> > public imports it has made.
>
> Yeah. D has great tools for getting around conflicts, but things tend to
> conflict by default, which means that it's very easy to break code by
> introducing conflicts when adding functions.
>
>
Hmm, fair enough.  In our case they were essentially pulled into the global
namespace due to some questionable decisions with regard to namespaces made
in our project.  The difference between D and C++ is important to point out
though so thanks for clarifying.

Regards,
Brad Anderson


> - Jonathan M Davis
>
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