On Aug 4, 2013, at 8:01 AM, Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de> wrote:

> My guess: if you re-export something from a module, then you still have to 
> import it if you want to use it in that module. Is that correct?

Correct.

> Examples of re-exporting:
> 
>     export * from "crypto";                    // re-exporting another 
> module's exports
>     export { foo, bar } from "crypto";         // re-exporting specified 
> exports from another module
> 
> That seems redundant. Maybe one could mark things that should be re-exported 
> when importing them? On the other hand, this may be rare enough that it 
> doesn’t warrant the extra syntax.

Not worth it. We can consider more conveniences post-ES6 but I doubt even then 
this particular one would be worth it.

Dave

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