That being said, I am not sure why I can use the qualified package name when I
have a dot import. This would be helpful for method collision like New()
> On Nov 29, 2018, at 8:35 AM, Robert Engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> I am not referring to variable declarations I am referring to
>
> X := SomeFunc()
>
> Far worse for understanding than having common or ubiquitous structs as dot
> imports. That way they become “part of the language”
>
> Static imports were added to Java long ago and if Java guys can figure it out
> I think you can too. It makes constants and ubiquitous types far easier to
> work with.
>
> And since you like lingo, more bits of information is not always a good
> thing. That’s why we have compression, and lossless compression of
> fixed.Fixed to Fixed is pretty good in my book.
>
>> On Nov 29, 2018, at 8:20 AM, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 3:07 PM Robert Engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Wait, you support type inference and not dot imports... I think you should
>> > revisit this opinion...
>>
>> I believe it's the other way around. Seeing T alone has n bits of
>> information. Seeing foo.T carries more bits of information. So Seeing
>>
>> x := foo.T{}
>>
>> for example, tells me about everything what I need to know when I already
>> know what is and why I or anyone else imported package foo.
>>
>> OTOH, "naked" T from an imported package loses that information and requires
>> to additionally build a mind map from T to foo. That's arguably not simpler.
>>
>> > also, dot imports are very versatile when changing the implementation
>> > without changing a lot of LOC.
>>
>> Well, then I hope your code reviewer does not share my opinions about dot
>> imports ;-)
>>
>> BTW: Neither are dot imports allowed inside the Go project itself. IINM, the
>> only exception are tests that were written before the build system (the go
>> command) existed.
>>
>>
>> --
>> -j
>>
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