Import concerns revisited

[Bruno Medeiros]

Regan Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:16:29 -0700, kris <foo at bar.com> wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> kris wrote:
>>>> Anyone would think we were trying to sabotage the language,
>>>   Nobody thinks that. We are all trying to get the best design for D 
>>> possible. That doesn't mean we are all going to agree on what the 
>>> best design is. There's no cause to label a difference of opinion as 
>>> sabotage, or any of the other epithets bandied about in this 
>>> disagreement (or some of the previous ones).
>>
>> It's far beyond a difference of opinion, Walter. Just look at the 
>> swell of experienced developers here literally begging for you to make 
>> a small change. Instead of listening carefully with an open mind, you 
>> project a closed and vacant shell. I think you'd have to agree that 
>> this is one serious issue.
>>
>> Why do you simply stonewall it? The projection is as though you're not 
>> even open to discussion.
> 
> I think you're being unfair, I'm not getting that impression.
> 
> Regan

I'm not getting that impression either. You (kris) were right about the 
problem of a lack of FQN import, and now everyone, Walter in particular, 
agree that it should be fixed[*].
But as for the other import features, I'm not sure the demand is that 
overwhelming. It's not the size of the thread that should judge that, 
there is lots of confusion(as Regan said) and also remnants of the 
original discussions. (Or maybe I'm just being "sly and blind"..)

[*] It is thanks to you kris, that of lack of FQN imports is now decided 
to be fixed. Despite I having mentioned this issue over a year ago, and 
also recently before this thread, you presented a hard and immediate 
example problem, which didn't occur to me or anyone else who 
participated in the previous discussions (the ones known of at least), 
and which convinced Walter to fix it.

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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
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