On Saturday, 15 June 2013 at 15:29:23 UTC, Mr. Anonymous wrote:
On Saturday, 15 June 2013 at 15:09:55 UTC, Peter Alexander
wrote:
On Saturday, 15 June 2013 at 12:20:46 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
One issue with local imports is that they hide local symbols.
Can you give an example? I can't repro.
void main()
{
import std.stdio;
void writeln(string) {}
writeln("foo");
std.stdio.writeln("bar");
}
This writes only "bar".
void writeln(string) {}
void main()
{
import std.stdio;
writeln("foo");
std.stdio.writeln("bar");
}
Oh, but that's not a local symbol, that's a module level symbol.
The import is more local that the module level writeln, so that
works as you would expect.
It also isn't a problem at all, because you can easily refer to
the module level symbol by fully qualifying it.
module thismodule;
void writeln(string) {}
void main()
{
import std.stdio;
thismodule.writeln("foo");
std.stdio.writeln("bar");
}
In any case, I'd recommend explicitly choosing which symbols to
import in the local import to avoid name clashes.
