On 2017-12-06 20:05, mrphobby wrote:
Can anyone explain what "stringImportPaths" is? I have seen this being
used in dub.json files and I think I kind of know what it does, but I
haven't been able to find a clear explanation in any documentation of
what it does. It does not look like anything I'm familiar with from
other languages.
I understand it can be used for resources but I have seen it being used
with both text files and binary files so I'm a bit confused. The
documentation says I can import "whatever", but that feels a bit weird
since importing is a construct used for importing symbols, right?
There are two kinds of language constructs that uses the "import"
keyword. One is the "Import Declaration" [1] which is the most common
one and is used to import other symbols. The other language construct is
the "Import Expression" [2], which is used to read a file at compile
time and put its content into a string literal in your source code.
Anything specified to the "stringImportPaths" build setting will be sent
to the compiler with the -J flag.
[1] https://dlang.org/spec/module.html#ImportDeclaration
[2] https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#import_expressions
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/Jacob Carlborg
