[dmd-internals] Why are there suddenly tons of deprecation messages about imports in Phobos?
Daniel Kozak via dmd-internals
dmd-internals at puremagic.com
Mon Feb 22 04:54:42 PST 2016
On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 07:47:16 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
> On Sunday, February 21, 2016 00:38:20 ZombineDev via
> dmd-internals wrote:
>> These happened:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/5426 - fix
>> Issue 313 - Fully qualified names bypass private imports
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/5445 -fix
>> Issue 10378 - Local imports hide local symbols
>>
>> I think similar cases were discussed in the comments on those
>> pull requests.
>
> Wow. All of the comments in the PRs that you guys linked to
> make this look like quite a mess, even if we're ultimately
> better off. It does seem pretty messed up to me though that you
> can't use a symbol's full import path when you've imported it
> selectively. I would have expected to still be able to do that,
> just not have access to any of the other symbols in the module
> that it's in - unless they too were selectively imported.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
From official D documentation (Selective Imports):
Specific symbols can be exclusively imported from a module and
bound into the current namespace.
std.stdio.writeln("hello!"); // error, std is undefined
So they never has been intended to works with FQN
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