Identifier resolution, the great implementation defined mess.

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 09/21/2014 09:54 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/21/2014 5:55 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> For local imports, DMD imports _all_ symbols into the local scope,
>> shadowing
>> anything that was there, which is plain broken (as Sӧnke's example
>> shows). BTW:
>> how do you suggest to treat the root package? I think importing into
>> the local
>> scope is fine, but the above example should emit an error because the
>> parameter
>> and the package conflict.
>>
>> (The following code does not compile either:
>> int std;
>> import std.conv;)
>
> Of course it shouldn't, ...

(That was my point.)