On 3/25/2011 4:10 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:05:39 +0200, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:
It appears that DMD barfs on files with - in the file name. Why?
Do you mean, why doesn't DMD try to work around the problem automatically (e.g.
by substituting/removing invalid characters in the module identifier)? The error
message answers your verbatim question.
"test-file-name.d: Error: module test-file-name has non-identifier characters in
filename, use module declaration instead"
The compiler synthesizes the module name from the file name. If the file name
has non-valid module identifiery characters in it, it can't do that. Hence the
error message. The solution is to either use a module declaration to set the
module name, or rename the file to be a valid module identifier.
The filename=modulename and directory=packagename equivalence allows for the
compiler to simply find and load imported modules. Without it you'd need some
complex database to map the module names to files.
