phobos dependencies

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 02:40:22PM -0500, Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2013-12-20 19:36:28 +0000, "Meta" <jared771 at gmail.com> said:
> 
> >On Friday, 20 December 2013 at 19:34:10 UTC, Patrick Down wrote:
> >>On Friday, 20 December 2013 at 17:40:08 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >>>in the current import path, then implicitly try to import x.y and
> >>>lookup z in that module. Then you could just write:
> >>>
> >>>	void f(T)(T t) if (std.range.isInputRange!T) ...
> >>>
> >>>and the compiler will automatically import std.range within that
> >>>scope.
> >>
> >>How about:
> >>
> >>scope import std.range;
> >>// lazy import std.range; ?
> >>
> >>void f(T)(T t) if (std.range.isInputRange!T) ...
> >
> >I think the best keyword to use in this situation would be
> >stati... Oh, dammit, not again.
> 
> Actually, "static import" already exists. And semantically it's
> pretty much the same thing as the above: you have to use the
> symbol's full name. But currently the compiler will import eagerly.
> I doubt there'd be any breakage if "static" changed to mean "lazily
> imported".
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Hmm. In that case, looks like we already have the solution. :)


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