Something like ADL from C++?

[Walter Bright]

On 12/3/2024 6:51 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> I dislike function-local import semantics quite a bit as they do not follow the 
> well-thought-out overloading rules that apply to other imports.

I don't know if anyone remembers, but there was a huge debate about this in the 
early days. I had implemented local import rules just like all the other rules, 
but everyone else deemed that unintuitive, and so we now have a difficult to 
explain mechanism that is intuitive.