dsimcha wrote:
It just seems like common sense to me that a module system (and a language in
general) should do what you mean as long as there's no ambiguity about what you
mean (without forcing you to specify things redundantly, such as by using
qualified names), but not guess what you mean when there is ambiguity. Is there
any other language that gets this right?
As far as I know, no other language does this right.
While it seems common sense in retrospect, coming up with it took a while. D1 is
close, but D2 shines.
Rob Pike (of Go fame) says Go doesn't allow function overloading because of the
confusion it causes. That's understandable given C++'s uncontrollable
overloading and open namespaces. D2 doesn't have that problem.
