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

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/14/2016 5:26 AM, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 22:33:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Destroy.
>>
>> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/pull/51/files
>
> Why not leave it as it is and only change the compiler to
> perform inputs _within_ a function before evaluating the declaration, so that
> the symbols imported can be used in the declaration?
>
> e.g.
>
> fun(Range x) if(isInputRange!x)
> {
>    import std.range;
>    auto a = x.front();
> }

That would make it problematic to have function declarations.