[dmd-beta] D2 2.058 beta

[Walter Bright]

Let's give it a whirl.

On 2/12/2012 11:08 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:07:33 +0100, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree. We need to revert this, and add all the new failures into the test 
>> suite, so any future attempt at this won't screw it up again.
>>
>> On 2/11/2012 12:52 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>> I've posted a pull request.
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/710
>>>
>>> This is extremely unlucky to roll this back so late.
>>> I will have a further look at it tomorrow to see how we can
>>> fix this with the least possible friction.
>>>
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> OK, there is one more fix for the remaining minor regression.
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/713
>
> The core issue to get imports right is that we add a lot of private symbols
> to a module which in turn causes module interferences due to the access vs. 
> visible behavior.
> Christian got around that by not adding the symbols and handling them during 
> symbol search instead.
>
> If we shift to hiding protected symbols we can fix import AND protection.
> It would also get rid of those incomprehensible symbol collisions and reduce 
> module conflicts.
> Some care is required with base class lookup and overloading.
> Do you see any further issues with that approach?
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