Discussion Thread: DIP 1039--Static Arrays with Inferred Length--Community Review Round 1

[Petar]

On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 at 23:19:45 UTC, Q. Schroll wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 at 20:04:00 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 at 19:49:10 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>>> I'd rather put the import at the top of the file, or in a 
>>> version(unittest) block than that. The problem with those 
>>> approaches is that if you have an example unittest, then when 
>>> a user tries to run it then they have to put the import in 
>>> themselves.
>>
>> Seems like the obvious solution is to put the import inside 
>> the unittest.
>
> I'd say that example unit tests shouldn't have anything 
> available except the current module. That a unittest is just a 
> function is wrong in many ways.
> By default, it shouldn't have access to imports outside of it 
> and it shouldn't have access to non-public (private, package) 
> symbols.

Agreed. Hence why we had to workaround those language limitations 
in phobos with this:
https://github.com/dlang/tools/blob/master/tests_extractor.d