On 13 Oct 2009, at 4:07 pm, John Cowan wrote:

> Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:
>
>> Ah-hah. So having feature groups separate like that is a way to allow
>> programmers to omit to declare their requirements in order to create
>> code that may break unexpectedly? :-)
>
> Pretty much.  Look how things work today:


Ok, I can accept that as "no worse than today", but under duress: it
sucks to have feature groups need their own special syntax, when
modules are just fine.

How about letting implementations provide the symbols defined by
feature-modules by default, making importing them optional?

ABS

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