What is the FreeBSD situation?

[rjframe]

On Sat, 04 Nov 2017 09:51:12 +0000, codephantom wrote:

>> It might also make sense, that if a source code file does not contain a
>> module statement, then it should not be treated as a module, and the
>> compiler should look to the import statements instead of implicitly
>> making in a module.
>>
> 
> I should add one more thing.
> 
> Both Andrei's book (The D Programming Language), and Ali's book
> (Programming in D), provide the usual 'hello world' thing, at the
> beginning. In both cases, the 'module' statement is not part of that
> example. That is consistent with other 'hello world' I've seen in D. All
> the other code in both book also consistently leaves out the 'module'
> statement.
> 
> My point being, given that "D is serious about modularity" (as Andrei
> put it in his book), then I think all 'hello world' examples should
> include the 'module' specifier as well, and explain why it's there too.
> I think that would really aid those who are new to the language..

Many people seem to leave the module statement out of their main.d/app.d 
files; I think it's a way to say "this is the main thing - don't import it 
from somewhere else." Basically, it's easier to act like that code isn't 
in a module than it is to have the compiler support code not in a module.