== Quote from jdrewsen (jdrew...@nospam.com)'s article > One way that may improve this would be to move the static methods > outside the class and make them into module functions instead. > The drawbacks of this is: > 1, When importing the module there would be more symbols polluting the > namespace.
I don't consider this much of a problem. If you want to use module that pollutes the namespace a lot with rarely called functions that have short, common names, that's what static or local (i.e. within a function/class/struct, which only can be done since the last release of DMD) imports are for. It's a problem in other languages, but in D there are elegant solutions. As an example, before I knew about static imports and before we had local imports, std.file's propensity to collide with just about everything due to its use of short, common names drove me crazy. Now, I really don't mind because I always import it either statically or locally.
