version assignment and module scope

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:26:27 +0000
dcrepid via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com>
wrote:

> Could this be considered a defect of design?
no. it works the way it's intended to work. given that order of module
imports is not defined (i.e. reordering imports should not affect
resulting code), making 'version=' propagating to other modules will
create disasterous side effects, even weirder than C macro abusing.

"#define" is BAD, but in C you can at least control order of imports.
in D you can't, so making 'version=' affect other modules will turn
everything to hellish nightmare.
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