Suggestion for DUB users: The vanity package

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 15:08:44 UTC 2021


On 10/20/21 10:40 AM, Mathias LANG wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at 13:39:22 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>
>> Naming conflicts with *other package names* is not the problem. It's 
>> the fact that the no-package module conflicts with anything else in 
>> your namespace, including imports from other modules.
> 
> IMO it *is* also a problem. As the number of packages grow, so will the 
> risk of conflict.
> 

Yes, but it's more of a garden variety naming conflict that can happen 
in any ecosystem. Not the same as the weird status of top-level module 
or package names in D.

-Steve


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