On Monday, 10 February 2014 at 00:30:14 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Sunday, February 09, 2014 19:18:05 Dicebot wrote:
Usage of selective imports is also encouraged.
Not so much. At least, not right now. They don't work right and
tend to cause
symbol conflicts:
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=314
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8667
Now, once they're fixed, I could see an argument for using
them, but until
then, I'd advise staying away from them - at least in library
code where the
modules that you're writing are likely to be imported by other
modules; it
won't matter so much if it's the module with main in it and
nothing is
importing it. Certainly, using them in something like Phobos is
generally a
bad idea at this point.
Personally, I'm not sure that I'd use them even once they're
fixed unless I
really only need one or two symbols out of the module, as it
gets tedious
otherwise, but I know that some people do really like the idea
of making it
very explicit which symbols are being used from a module being
imported.
- Jonathan M Davis
Awesome. Thanks for the information. I've found a few places I
think it makes sense, but I was a little worried about doing it
everywhere. Code bloat city.
