Re: importing a symbol without specifying a subpackage name

2020-09-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 13:36:22 UTC, 60rntogo wrote: except that I tried doing this in foo.d and then the compiler yelled at me. Yeah, this is the one case where the compiler is picky about the directory structure and filename. It *must* be package.d. (blargh.)

Re: importing a symbol without specifying a subpackage name

2020-09-16 Thread 60rntogo via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 13:33:34 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: They define an additional file std/package.d Thanks for a quick answer. I suspected it must have been something like that, except that I tried doing this in foo.d and then the compiler yelled at me.

Re: importing a symbol without specifying a subpackage name

2020-09-16 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 13:30:57 UTC, 60rntogo wrote: then saying "import foo : Bar;" yields an error "module foo is in file 'foo.d' which cannot be read". I'm curious, how is this behavior achieved in the standard library? To expand on Adam's reply:

importing a symbol without specifying a subpackage name

2020-09-16 Thread 60rntogo via Digitalmars-d-learn
I have noticed that if I want to import std.algorithm.searching.find, each of the following will work: --- import std.algorithm.searching : find; import std.algorithm : find; import std : find; --- (Although, the last one is probably not the greatest idea.) However, if I write my own module:

Re: importing a symbol without specifying a subpackage name

2020-09-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 13:30:57 UTC, 60rntogo wrote: I'm curious, how is this behavior achieved in the standard library? They define an additional file std/package.d (and std/algorithm/package.d btw) that lists off module std; public import std.algorithm; public import