[dmd-internals] Why are there suddenly tons of deprecation messages about imports in Phobos?

[Brad Roberts via dmd-internals]

On 2/22/16 4:36 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Brad Roberts via dmd-internals
> <dmd-internals at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>> What I'm trying to say is how I've expected them to work.  I really don't
>> think tacking on a filter list should be changing the semantics.  A lot of
>> the time I start off with just "import foo" and then later trim that down to
>> "import foo : sym1, sym2, etc" based on what I ended up using.  IMHO, that
>> change should be _trivially_ correct.  And it's actually not given the
>> current (and past) definition.
>>
>
> This is exactly how I always wanted them to work (and in most cases
> it's close enough).  I have known they didn't work this way for a
> fairly long time.
>
> Walter has pointed out many times that D imports work via a simple and
> consistent model.  The downside seems to be that it's a model that few
> expect...

Most of those discussions have been about the look up rules, not the import rules.  They're two 
distinct operations, where obviously the import rules affect the results of look up.