Workaround for DIP 1005

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/3/17 10:41 AM, Daniel N wrote:
> On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 14:43:01 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote:
>> DIP 1005 provides new syntax to make it possible to avoid global imports.
>> Any thoughts?
>
> I like it!
>
> template imp(string mod)
> {
>   mixin("import imp = " ~ mod ~ ";");
> }
>
> auto fun_time(imp!"std.datetime".SysTime tm)
> {
>   return tm;
> }
>
> void main()
> {
>   import std.stdio;
>   import std.datetime;
>
>   fun_time(Clock.currTime()).writeln;
> }

Wow. This is... brilliant. Thanks for the great idea. I ran a few tests 
and it seems to be doing out of the box most of what we want with 
DIP1005 with no language change at all.

Congratulations!


Andrei