On Sunday, 2 June 2019 at 19:38:11 UTC, Amex wrote:
Tired of having to import a single function to call it.
Since
mod.foo(x);
doesn't work since mod is not defined.
we have to do
import mod : foo;
foo(x);
Why not
mod:foo(x)?
or
mod#foo(x)
or
mod@foo(x)
or whatever
Reduces 50% of the lines and reduces the import symbol.
I realize that we could do
import m = mod;
m.foo(x);
but the idea is to only import the single function. I'm not
sure if it matters. I thought importing single functions were
suppose to be faster. Am I wrong?
The idea is to reduce having to litter the code with imports
which I find I'm always having to do, or to make them global...
just for a few calls in to them.
Expression based import is possible using mixin, see
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/02/13/a-new-import-idiom/
