Effective D book?

[Timon Gehr]

On 06/15/2013 05:09 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 June 2013 at 12:20:46 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> One issue with local imports is that they hide local symbols.
>
> Can you give an example? I can't repro.
>
> void main()
> {
>      import std.stdio;
>      void writeln(string) {}
>      writeln("foo");
>      std.stdio.writeln("bar");
> }
>
> This writes only "bar".

More peculiar example:

void main(){
     import std.stdio;
     void writefx(string s){writeln(s);}
     {
         import std.stdio;
         writefx("bar"); // error: writefx is private
     }
}

'writefx' happens to be a private symbol in std.stdio.