On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 09:47:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2017-12-06 20:05, mrphobby wrote:
There are two kinds of language constructs that uses the
"import" keyword. One is the "Import Declaration" [1] which is
the most common one and is used to import other symbols. The
other language construct is the "Import Expression" [2], which
is used to read a file at compile time and put its content into
a string literal in your source code.
Anything specified to the "stringImportPaths" build setting
will be sent to the compiler with the -J flag.
[1] https://dlang.org/spec/module.html#ImportDeclaration
[2] https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#import_expressions
Ok thanks! I couldn't find that in the docs so kudos for pointing
me to it.
I still think using the word "import" is confusing. Would rather
have it called "load" or something. But at least I understand it
now :)
