On 2013-12-20 17:27:55 +0000, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> said:
I had this idea fot a while, and Walter is favorable of it as well -
extend "import" for one-shot use. With that feature the example would
become:
void topN(alias less = "a < b",
SwapStrategy ss = SwapStrategy.unstable,
Range, RandomGen)(Range r, size_t nth, ref RandomGen rng)
if (isRandomAccessRange!(Range) && hasLength!Range
&& import.std.random.isUniformRNG!RandomGen)
{ ... }
In this case "import" would syntactically be placed at the beginning of
a qualified name, meaning "import this module lazily and look up the
symbol in it".
This would simplify quite a lot of two-liners into one-liners in other
places, too.
How do you solve the problem that in D you can't tell the module name
from a fully qualified names? For instance:
import.std.something.somethingelse.anotherthing = 1;
Is the module std? std.something? std.something.somethingelse? It could
be any of these answers.
module std.something;
struct somethingelse { static int anotherthing = 0; }
or
module std.something.somethingelse;
int anotherthing = 0;
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