On Wednesday 10 May 2006 07:14 am, David Corbin wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 May 2006 02:38 am, Charles O Nutter wrote:
> > Can anyone remember why we decided to use include_class instead of
> > import? It suddenly occurred to me today that import is both shorter
> > and more precise, since we're really importing a Java class into the
> > current namespace.
>
> I suspect it was to be kind of like 'include Module', but I don't know why
> we would want that.
>

On further reflection, it may be because we cannot import a package ("foo.*") 
and thus creates less confusion.

> > There's probably a snowball's chance in hell we'll change it now, of
> > course
>
> We could make import an alias for it.
>
>
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