DMD 0.163 release
Carlos Santander
csantander619 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 05:44:57 PDT 2006
Walter Bright escribió:
>
> 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.
A bit late from me, but thanks!
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Carlos Santander Bernal
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