Passing file handles from functions? (Changed since dmd v0.118)

[Lars Kyllingstad]

AEon wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, this is only day 3 of me reading up on D again, but 
> would that mean I have to place the "same" list of library imports into 
> every module I use, instead of defining such a list in one "central" 
> module, that is then imported by all the other modules?
> 
> [...]
> 
> So my "style guide" question?
> 
> Should I refrain from using a global library include module 
> (aepar_global.d), to instead include the libs on a per module basis, 
> including only those libs the functions actually need? Or is there some 
> other way?

If you use the *same* imports in every module, perhaps it makes sense to 
create a module that imports them all. To do this, you use the 'public 
import' statement, i.e. in aepar_global.d you write

   public import std.c.stdio;
   public import std.c.stdlib;
   ...

However, most of the time this is not true, at least not in my 
experience. I think it's better to keep the namespace clean and tidy by 
using only the imports one actually needs in each module. Private 
imports are the default, as Sergey pointed out.

-Lars