On Tuesday, 14 February 2017 at 20:03:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
That being said, at some point, you have to ask whether each
added feature is worth the cost when you consider how it's
going to clutter up function signatures even further. And while
I do think that there is value in DIP 1005 and the proposed
from template, I also think that it's taking it too far. IMHO,
it's just not worth marking functions even further - at least
not in most code. Maybe it's worth it in something like Phobos
where everyone is using it and benefiting from the compilation
speed up, but Walter has been wanting to implement lazy imports
anyway, and that would fix the problem without doing anything
to any function signatures. It does lose the benefits of tying
the imports to the function, but personally, I don't think that
that's's worth the extra cost of further cluttering up the
function signature. As it is, I'm increasingly of the opinion
that local and selective imports aren't worth it. It's just so
much nicer to able to slap the required imports at the
beginning of the module and forget about them than having to
worry about maintaining a list of selective imports or have all
of the extra import lines inside of all of the functions. And
adding imports to the function signatures is just making the
whole local import situation that much worse.
+1. D's beautiful syntax plays a key role for attracting new
folks, and I see it endangered by recent developments.
