On Monday, 10 February 2014 at 22:42:30 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
That would be _encouraging_ the use of importing whole packages
at once, which
I don't think that we're looking to do. If some folks want to
do that with
their own projects, fine, but the feature was introduced
specifically in order
to split of larger modules into packages, not to treat packages
as modules.
Prohibiting alternative is not "discouraging", it is prohibiting.
Discouraging is providing both options and clearly stating which
one is recommended. So far D has been a very permissive language
in terms of user choice, it is strange to suddenly start making
restrictions here.
