For a project I've been working on, I found that it would be
helpful to have a way to determine whether a symbol represents a
module or package. Since I couldn't find an easy way to do it, I
forked DMD and made some tweaks. ;)
Anyway, I uncovered an interesting issue. According to my test
program (https://gist.github.com/blm768/42f40aa5a0c49bb8bd16),
these are the "types" of various packages/modules in Phobos:
std:
std.stdio: package, module
std.algorithm: package
std.digest: package
In other words, "std" isn't a package _or_ module, and std.stdio
is both (even though it's just a single D source file). This
doesn't seem quite right.
There could be an error in my patch to DMD, but I don't see where
it could be because it's so simple. The code is at
https://github.com/blm768/dmd/tree/new_traits if anyone wants to
look over it.
If anyone can help me figure out what's going on, I'd greatly
appreciate it.
