On Friday, 23 February 2018 at 16:03:56 UTC, Aurélien Plazzotta
wrote:
Perhaps, we could use Backus-Naur notation, as it is already
widely known into formal documents all over the globe, like the
following:
import std.stdio, std.whatever{this, that}, std.somethingelse,
std.grr{wtf};
That is with curly brackets instead of square brackets like you
suggest :)
Yeah...again.. I'd prefer to not to have to think differently
about syntax, just for writing imports. That's why I'd prefer to
just think of them as arrays using D's array like syntax.
import std.stdio [writeln, write = cwrite, writefln],
std.whatever;
I'm not sufficiently motivated to do anything here anyway, as I
don't believe a case for change can really be justified - cause
how many imports can you realistically include on a single line
anyway?
The current way is just fine, and provides really good clarity
for what's going on.
But I would (and am) very, very motivated to oppose introduction
of an obscure, confusing, or foreign syntax.
The real motivator for the change, as i see it, seemed to be
related to thinking that the imports section was not really for
human consumption - which it not true at all. The second motivate
seemed to be related to saving a few keystrokes or line space.
Again, human consumption should take priority here in my view.
Anyway, the point is moot at this point - since the change is
being reversed and nobody seems motivated to push it again. Which
is just fine with me ;-)
