Re: imports in functions

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 13.06.2011 1:15, Walter Bright wrote:

Nobody seems to have noticed yet, but yesterday I removed the restriction preventing import declarations from being used in functions. These now work:

void test1()
{
    import std.c.stdio;
    printf("hello world\n");
}

void test2()
{
    static import std.c.stdio;
    std.c.stdio.printf("hello world\n");
}

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/d5fbd53aa8d8452dce2514944575e654d387477a

I believe this can lead to better encapsulation of code, especially when using mixins, versioning and other conditional compilation constructs.

Also very helpful for unittests, thanks.

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Dmitry Olshansky