https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17907
Shriramana Sharma <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WONTFIX |--- --- Comment #4 from Shriramana Sharma <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Martin Nowak from comment #2) > Yes, there is little chance to support functions, as the same symbol would > need to be resolved differently, e.g. in `.fun.fun` it's the module, but in > `.fun()` it's supposed to be the function. Come on people, what is the problem here? When it is followed by a () it is a function, or if it is in another context such as a function argument list where a function is expected then it is a function. Otherwise, it is a module. The compiler, especially the *D* compiler, knows *everything*. It can do this. > While the type resolution seems inconsistent, it is a common Java idiom to > name source files after the main class/type, and it's widely used in (older) > D libraries. If by this you are saying that you have provided support for types to be named the same as modules because it is the practice so in Java, kindly note that the following Python standard library modules are named the same as their main function: https://docs.python.org/3/library/bisect.html#bisect.bisect https://docs.python.org/3/library/copy.html#copy.copy https://docs.python.org/3/library/fnmatch.html#fnmatch.fnmatch https://docs.python.org/3/library/getopt.html#getopt.getopt https://docs.python.org/3/library/getpass.html#getpass.getpass https://docs.python.org/3/library/gettext.html#gettext.gettext https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html#glob.glob https://docs.python.org/3/library/pprint.html#pprint.pprint https://docs.python.org/3/library/select.html#select.select https://docs.python.org/3/library/signal.html#signal.signal I can't begin to survey how many third-part Python libraries follow this pattern as well. Obviously, I'm coming to D after some years in Python for the speed factor. Given that it is technically possible for the D compiler to resolve to a function, marking the bug as WONTFIX seems to be closing one's mind to users' convenience and expectations. If you aren't able to allot this sufficient priority to spend time on it, at least leave it open until someone can. --
