Identifier resolution, the great implementation defined mess.

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/21/2014 12:58 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> 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.)

Parameters are not in the same scope as local variables.