On 18/01/11 20:26, Walter Bright wrote:
Jim wrote:
Adam Ruppe Wrote:
Maybe. 9/10 times they match anyway, but I'd be annoyed if the package
names had to match the containing folder.
This is enforced in some languages, and I like it. It'd be confusing
if they
didn't match when I would go to look for something.
I think it would be a good idea for D to standardise this. Not only so
that
the compiler can traverse and compile but for all dev tools (static
analysers, package managers, etc). Standardisation makes it easier to
create
toolchains, which I believe are essential for the growth of any
language use.
Forcing the module name to match the file name sounds good, but in
practice it makes it hard to debug modules. What I like to do is to copy
a suspicious module to foo.d (or whatever.d) and link it in explicitly,
which will override the breaking one. Then, I hack away at it until I
discover the problem, then fix the original.
Couldn’t you do exactly the same thing by just copying the file?
cp suspicious.d suspicious.orig
edit suspicious.d
