On 12/28/16 9:47 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:48:46 +0000, deadalnix wrote:
On Saturday, 24 December 2016 at 15:44:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
A compiler enhancement can do this _without_ a language change.
The language addition has additional benefits as described by DIP1005.
-- Andrei
Yes, question is, are these specific benefits worth adding a language
change ?
And the associated detriments. Just imagine opening up phobos and seeing:
// 1200 lines of code
with (import foo)
{
// 300 lines of declarations...
with (import bar)
{
// 250 lines of additional declarations...
}
}
All mixed in with structs and functions and conditional compilation, so
you have a sea of curly braces to wade through and indentation is only a
mild help.
The D Standard Library will generally specify dependencies with
declarations. If the point was that the feature can be misused or abused
if one really tries, I agree. -- Andrei
