On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Brad Roberts via dmd-internals <[email protected]> wrote: > > What I'm trying to say is how I've expected them to work. I really don't > think tacking on a filter list should be changing the semantics. A lot of > the time I start off with just "import foo" and then later trim that down to > "import foo : sym1, sym2, etc" based on what I ended up using. IMHO, that > change should be _trivially_ correct. And it's actually not given the > current (and past) definition. >
This is exactly how I always wanted them to work (and in most cases it's close enough). I have known they didn't work this way for a fairly long time. Walter has pointed out many times that D imports work via a simple and consistent model. The downside seems to be that it's a model that few expect... _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
