Inline imports redivivus
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at gmail.com
Fri Jul 23 18:57:08 UTC 2021
On 7/23/21 9:55 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Mathias Lang just told me the bug preventing inline imports from working
> has been fixed, so I reopened this:
>
> https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1756
>
> I think it's a very useful facility, more clearly so for large projects,
> and deserves a fair shake of the stick.
>
> If it works well in practice, a future language proposal could take
> `_import!"std.datetime".SysTime` to the simpler and better
> `import(std.datetime).SysTime`. Using it as a library facility seems
> like a good step.
No comments on the inline-import mechanism. I'm not too concerned with
the problem it solves (I'm OK adding imports when needed).
Just FYI, `import(somefilenamestring)` already is taken.
-Steve
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