On Friday, 4 November 2022 at 19:40:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
So that you can import abc.def separately from abc.def.ghi and abc.def.jkl.
This isn't that hard; in the old days you'd have `pkg.foo` then `import pkg.all` instead of `import pkg;`. The specific thing that led to the package.d thing is the desire to transition Phobos in addition to some flawed ideology. (One of the other constraints was that you should be able to zip up the directory of the package and have it all together, hence using dir/package.d instead of just dir.d. But this would have worked anyway if not for the inconsistent design flaw of requiring the file to be called package.d in the first place! And with this if you compile it separately vs compiling it together you get totally different results. It really is just a *terrible* design.)
