importing modules with non-identifier names
Don
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Sat Oct 31 11:58:32 PDT 2009
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Has anyone been irked by this? If you have a module called 5th-element.d
> there is no way to import that. I don't think it's a major issue, but
> I'm also seeing it as a limitation that should have a better explanation.
>
> One way to circumvent that may be
>
> import fifth = "5th-element.d";
>
> i.e., specify the file as a string and assign to it a regular D
> identifier. Probably similar things have been discussed in the past,
> what's the general impression?
It's just one of a great many cases which would be fixed by introducing
__identifier("XXX"). (That's also a construct which would do wonders for
string mixins, BTW).
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