Re: Why modules is so strongly limited?

[Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 13 July 2016 at 20:58:02 UTC, imbaFireFenix wrote:
Hello my friends!
I'm new user of D language and leaarning how it works.
I'm know C++ and trying Rust, GO and some else and now - D is 
the best language for me

But I'm confused... Many coders was great work and interesting 
features, but modules is so strongly limited!!!

https://dlang.org/spec/module.html
Only one module per file.

but Rust and beta VC++ can multiple file to one module! Why 
implemented this limit?
Why modules not written as mix of C# namespace and C++ 
translation unity? It will be greatly!

But for now for huge project need to do:

~~~ ~~~ ~~~

module M1;

class M1
{
}

~~~ ~~~ ~~~

module M2;

import M1;

public alias M1 = M1.M1;

~~~ ~~~ ~~~

import M2;

int main()
{
    M2.M1 Something;
}

~~~ ~~~ ~~~

Thanks.

Hi!

In this cases, the usual way is to make a package, this way:

== in file MP/M1.d ==
module MP.M1;

// some pieces of the work

== in file MP/M2.d ==
module MP.M2;

// other pieces of the work

== in file MP/package.d ==
module MP;
public import MP.M1;
public import MP.M2;

// public import everything

== in file main.d ==
module main;
import MP;

// can access everything, because publicly imported by 
MP/package.d