Symbol lookup rules and imports

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 3 05:34:42 PST 2014


On 2014-12-02 23:00, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> I'm finding it harder and harder to accept Walter's stance that symbol
> lookups should be kept simple and free from complications and convoluted
> corner cases, etc.. Except that it is *already* full of convoluted
> pitfalls and corner cases you must avoid, as illustrated above. I wish
> we would just acknowledge that the current symbol lookup / import rules
> (or at least the implementation thereof) are inadequate, and find a
> clean solution to this long-standing issue, instead of hoping that
> denying the problem will somehow, magically, make it all go away.

I fully agree.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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