• d-bugmail puremagic.com Nov 13 2009
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• d-bugmail puremagic.com Nov 14 2009

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3505

           Summary: [module] static imports should be binded to the leaf
                    module, not the fully qualified name
           Product: D
           Version: future
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: llucax gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from Leandro Lucarella <llucax gmail.com> 2009-11-13 16:29:18
PST ---
Now static imports uses full qualified module names:

  static import foo.bar.baz;
  foo.bar.baz.f();

It would be much nicer to avoid a lot of typing to make them bind to the leaf
module:

  static import foo.bar.baz;
  baz.f();

This removes a lot of clutter from static import and make renamed import almost
useless. I do this manually most of the time:

  import baz = foo.bar.baz;
  baz.f();

Which is clumsier.

This feature would be great specially if all imports are static by default (see
bug 3503).

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Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> 2009-11-14 08:37:38 PST ---
Maybe something like this could be allowed to mean "import renamed to the
leaf":

    import (foo.bar.)MyModule;

Sometimes I do want the actually fully qualified name, like for a module like
std.string.  Having "string" mucks with the type "string".  Or maybe parens
around the part to keep:

    import foo.bar.(MyModule);

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--- Comment #2 from Leandro Lucarella <llucax gmail.com> 2009-11-14 09:20:25
PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
 Maybe something like this could be allowed to mean "import renamed to the
 leaf":
 
     import (foo.bar.)MyModule;
 
 Sometimes I do want the actually fully qualified name, like for a module like
 std.string.  Having "string" mucks with the type "string".  Or maybe parens
 around the part to keep:
 
     import foo.bar.(MyModule);


I think it's very unfortunate to have a module with the same name of an almost
built-in type. Maybe the module can be renamed to std.str; or we can live with:

import str = std.string;

Another possibility is, if bug 3503 gets implemented, is to leave static import
untouched. I think that's even a good idea for backwards compatibility.

static import std.string;
import std.algorithm;

std.string.foo();
algorithm.sort();

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