Proposal: Make imports private by default

[Bruno Medeiros]

jcc7 wrote:
> In article <e9g5q6$81k$2 at digitaldaemon.com>, Bruno Medeiros says...
>> Knud Sørensen wrote:
>>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:40:31 +0100, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>>
>>>> Following the recent generalized discussion about imports, and the entry 
>>>> in the wiki of proposals of new kinds of imports, and also the idea I've 
>>>> mentioned before of using the wiki to keep track of proposals, I have 
>>>> launched this thread as the primary point of discussion for a very well 
>>>> known and familiar proposal:
>>> Bruno are you familiar with the D wish list ?? 
>>> http://all-technology.com/eigenpolls/dwishlist/
>>>
>>> http://all-technology.com/eigenpolls/dwishlist/story.php
>> Yes I am, remember this? :
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/29253.html
>> (see the last post)
> 
> He wrote in http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/29517:
> 
>> Indeed. I think a feature/change feedback system would be nice (even 
>> if a simple one), but I don't think a poll system works at all for that
>> purpose. One should have a voting/ranking for each individual
>> feature/change, not a ranking amongst them. And it would also need 
>> the following:
>> * User Autentication (to avoid duplicate votes)
>> * Allow negative voting. (i.e. deslike)
> 
> Well, the wiki doesn't exactly solve the duplicate votes problem either since
> people could still log in under multiple names (though the wiki would alleviate
> the problem). I suppose it would allow "negative" voting, though.
> 
> jcc7

When I said that a poll system wouldn't work for that, I didn't mean as 
to prevent abuse. I meant just that I prefer an absolute ranking(with a 
possible textual comment) rather a relative numeric ranking.
I didn't think about ranking abuse, and I hope that we are not yet at a 
stage that we have to worry about that.

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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
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