Why can't we put import in functions.

[Brad Roberts]

Bruce Adams wrote:
> Robert Fraser Wrote:
> 
>> Yang Bo Wrote:
>>
>>> We can put "using namesapce" in any place in C++. Why not do the same
>>> way in D?
>> mixin(import(FILENAME));
>>
>> You may need a compile-time function to strip the module declaration and be wary of forward references.
> 
> Its practices like this that will result it someone writing D++ or E or
> switching to something else entirely. Ugly ugly ugly. Do not promote.
> 
> Bruce.

Aside from the overt ugliness of the suggestion, it's also significantly 
different.

C++'s "using namespace" and D's 'import' convey symbol visibility.  D's 
mixin(import(filename)) is direct inclusion of code, implementation and 
all.  That mixin syntax is the equivalent of C/C++'s #include 
preprocessor token.

Later,
Brad