DIP16: Transparently substitute module with package

[Robert Clipsham]

On 30/03/2012 15:46, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Starting a new thread from one in announce:
>
> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP16
>
> Please comment, after which Walter will approve. Walter's approval means
> that he would approve a pull request implementing DIP16 (subject to
> regular correctness checks).
>
>
> Destroy!
>
> Andrei

The proposal doesn't say what happens when package.d is not found but 
foo/bar/ exists.

Given that a lot of people will just use public import foo.bar.*; in 
that file, would it make sense for package.d missing to imply import 
foo.bar.*? That would save typing out every single file in there. Of 
course it would also be annoying if you wanted to import everything 
except one file, as you'd then have to type out every single import anyway.

The other option is to error, which is probably a more sane option.

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