> Walter: > > > > May I also ask, does the compiler and linker highlight the unused > > > import to the user so that they can be removed from source code. > > > > This was discussed and we decided it was not a good idea for various > > reasons. > > Maybe we'll discuss about that again, because giving a help to remove unwanted dependencies has its advantages. > > Bye, > bearophile
I do not think this should be a compiler feature. It sounds like a task more suitable for a source code analyzer. Apart from that, if you need that functionality, you can easily write a small script that comments out all imports in turn and tries to recompile.