Allow identical imports

Daniel Murphy yebblies at nospamgmail.com
Tue Jul 30 08:24:13 PDT 2013


"Dicebot" <public at dicebot.lv> wrote in message 
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> On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 14:52:52 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>> I would think that a redundant import would be something along the lines 
>> of a warning, not a full on error, there is no reason the compiler 
>> shouldn't be able to compile it.
>
> That is somewhat similar to "statement has no effect" error. Any warning 
> that has no valid use case should be an error, it does not matter if 
> compiler can do it.

The use case is generated code.  Errors are for things that can cause bugs. 
How can identical imports cause a bug? 




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