On Wednesday, 18 December 2013 at 21:40:08 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
1. Improve the compiler to handle imports lazily, i.e. an
unused import is never opened. That's unlikely to help a lot of
uses because most unqualified name lookups require all imports
to be loaded (even after the name if resolved, the compiler
must still look for ambiguities).
2. Push imports from top level into the entities (functions,
classes etc) that use them.
3. Apply classic dependency management (break larger modules in
smaller ones, accept some code duplication etc).
I favor (2).
Andrei
2 + 3 (breaking modules into packages part) should do the tricky
as far as I can see. Lot of current dependency bloat comes from
importing whole std.range / std.algorithm to use one or two
utility functions in few places.
On topic of (2) I propose to add it to Phobos style guide and
start enforcing during PR review.
