How can we make it easier to experiment with the compiler?

[Schrom, Brian T]

> From: Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d-bounces at puremagic.com> On Behalf Of Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2021 7:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: How can we make it easier to experiment with the compiler?

> Fixing this is not easy, it requires a lot of hard thinking about what a module
> *really* needs to do. But each success at eliminating an import makes it more understandable.

I spent a few hours over a couple of weekends experimenting with removing imports or making them selective at least, and I believe it was "alias this" or something with symbol resolution became a nightmare and I stopped looking at it.  I totally get it's my lack of understanding symbol resolution that was the issue.  Given the time I had to devote, it was too big of a hurdle to overcome at the time.