DMD 0.163 release

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Walter Bright wrote:

> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
> 
> This has all the new import changes in it. That breaks a lot of existing
> code (like dmdscript), the fixes are simple (adding more import
> declarations) but tedious.
> 
> I couldn't find a better keyword choice than "static import".
> 
> The renaming uses '=' instead of 'as', 'from', or 'alias' for the reasons:
> 
> 1) didn't want to add new keywords, especially ones like 'as' as I use
> that as a variable name
> 
> 2) didn't need to add new keywords - adding them should be done only if
> using punctuation is completely unappealing
> 
> 3) using '=' and ':' is visually more distinct than embedded keywords.

Whatever harsh words I came with a week ago, they are forgotten. A wonderful
release :D (Especially since I don't see the need for the static version so
I won't ever be bothered by the presence of the static keyword.)

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
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