Symbol lookup rules and imports

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 13:34:42 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2014-12-02 23:00, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
>> I'm finding it harder and harder to accept Walter's stance 
>> that symbol
>> lookups should be kept simple and free from complications and 
>> convoluted
>> corner cases, etc.. Except that it is *already* full of 
>> convoluted
>> pitfalls and corner cases you must avoid, as illustrated 
>> above. I wish
>> we would just acknowledge that the current symbol lookup / 
>> import rules
>> (or at least the implementation thereof) are inadequate, and 
>> find a
>> clean solution to this long-standing issue, instead of hoping 
>> that
>> denying the problem will somehow, magically, make it all go 
>> away.
>
> I fully agree.

+1

So far it seems there is huge amount of anecdotal evidence that D 
module system does not work as designed and people keep inventing 
hacks and workaround to get over it. And yet Walter still 
considers it success.

Well, compared to C includes - no doubt. Compared to actually 
usable modle system.. meh. Right now it pretty much requires 
relying on coding discipline and custom rules for import 
formatting.