DIP10005: Dependency-Carrying Declarations is now available for community feedback

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Dec 15 08:11:56 PST 2016


On 12/15/2016 6:53 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The document does specify the advantages and disadvantages of lazy
> imports, as follows:
>
> ===
> * Full lazy `import`s. Assume all `import`s are lazy without any change in the
> language. That would allow an idiom by which libraries use fully qualified names
> everywhere, and the `import`s would be effected only when names are looked up.
> This would allow scalability but not the dependency-carrying aspect.
> ===

That would be a massive breaking change.



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