On 12/2/2014 2:00 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
However, there are major issues with scoped imports currently, that make this otherwise ideal solution less-than-ideal, which stem from the way 'import' is implemented in D. When the compiler encounters an 'import' statement, what it essentially does is to parse the symbols in the target module, and add them to the symbol table for the current scope.
No, it does not. Each scope has a symbol table of symbols declared in the current scope,
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/src/dsymbol.h#L298 and it has an array of imported symbol tables: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/src/dsymbol.h#L301 Only if the symbol is not found in the current scope, https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/src/dsymbol.c#L902 it then looks in the imported symbol tables: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/src/dsymbol.c#L910
