import concerns

Andrei Khropov andkhropov at nospam_mtu-net.ru
Sat Jul 8 03:18:28 PDT 2006


Walter Bright wrote:

> There's another way - have a different kind of import declaration, say,
> precede it with static:
> 
> 	static import foo;
> 
> which will make the symbols in foo available, but only if they are explicitly
> qualified. Then one could access bar in foo by either:
> 
> 	foo.bar();
> 
> or:
> 
> 	alias foo.bar bar;
> 	bar();
> 
> but not:
> 
> 	bar();	// error, undefined symbol
> 
> The advantage of this is it is a bit more flexible and more consistent with
> the way the rest of D lookups work.

That's what I was talking about in
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/39348.html

Finally got a feedback from Walter :-)

Looking forward to see this in future releases.

"as" would be nice too but it's just syntactic sugar for fqn import + alias.

-- 
AKhropov



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