2.068.0 regression?

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 23:18:04 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 08/20/2015 01:06 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 22:33:23 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>> It's a bug in local imports. This is the ticket:
>>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10378
>>
>> Seems to fit into existing shadowing semantics.
>
> There's no precedent for symbols shadowed by imports.
>
>> If this is a bug we may need a new spec.
>
> I believe local imports were first implemented without paying 
> any attention to shadowing. I think the broken semantics 
> implemented in DMD without a sufficient up-front design were 
> then back-ported into the documentation at some point. This 
> still happens too often. This is the JavaScript style of 
> language design.

import should NEVER shadow local symbols.