DMD 0.163 release

[David L. Davis]

In article <e9jfdd$1sb0$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
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>http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
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>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.
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>I couldn't find a better keyword choice than "static import".
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>The renaming uses '=' instead of 'as', 'from', or 'alias' for the reasons:
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>1) didn't want to add new keywords, especially ones like 'as' as I use 
>that as a variable name
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>2) didn't need to add new keywords - adding them should be done only if 
>using punctuation is completely unappealing
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>3) using '=' and ':' is visually more distinct than embedded keywords.

Walter thanks for making the imports private by default! I'm glad you finally
listen on this subject. ;) Keep up the good work!!

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