syntax sugar: std.path::buildPath instead of from!"std.path".buildPath

Daniel N via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Feb 14 02:13:41 PST 2017


On Tuesday, 14 February 2017 at 09:55:51 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
>
> Why? It looks awful. The signatures we already have in Phobos 
> is quite ridiculous, this will not improve. Isn't this and the 
> whole idea of DIP 1005 just a workaround for the compiler not 
> lazily analyzing the symbols.

Even those of you who favor...
with(import std.stdio)

... wouldn't you agree that this is better?
with(Module!"std.stdio")

Less intrusive compiler change because the same syntax already 
works everywhere "with" is valid.



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