Re: import and call
On Sunday, 2 June 2019 at 19:38:11 UTC, Amex wrote: I thought importing single functions were suppose to be faster. Am I wrong? That is wrong. Importing is always done of the whole module. All the `: func` thing does is limit the things introduced to the namespace.
Re: import and call
On Sunday, 2 June 2019 at 19:38:11 UTC, Amex wrote: Tired of having to import a single function to call it. Since mod.foo(x); doesn't work since mod is not defined. we have to do import mod : foo; foo(x); Why not mod:foo(x)? or mod#foo(x) or mod@foo(x) or whatever Reduces 50% of the lines and reduces the import symbol. I realize that we could do import m = mod; m.foo(x); but the idea is to only import the single function. I'm not sure if it matters. I thought importing single functions were suppose to be faster. Am I wrong? The idea is to reduce having to litter the code with imports which I find I'm always having to do, or to make them global... just for a few calls in to them. Expression based import is possible using mixin, see https://dlang.org/blog/2017/02/13/a-new-import-idiom/
import and call
Tired of having to import a single function to call it. Since mod.foo(x); doesn't work since mod is not defined. we have to do import mod : foo; foo(x); Why not mod:foo(x)? or mod#foo(x) or mod@foo(x) or whatever Reduces 50% of the lines and reduces the import symbol. I realize that we could do import m = mod; m.foo(x); but the idea is to only import the single function. I'm not sure if it matters. I thought importing single functions were suppose to be faster. Am I wrong? The idea is to reduce having to litter the code with imports which I find I'm always having to do, or to make them global... just for a few calls in to them.