On 2013-12-18 22:40, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
There are several directions we can take this.
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).
I would guess that not a single of these solutions alone would solve the
problem. Most likely all will be needed.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
