• Carl Sturtivant (11/11) Feb 01 Hello,
• Steven Schveighoffer (4/15) Feb 01 Are you thinking of this?
• Carl Sturtivant (4/7) Feb 01 Yes! Glad it's now part of D.

Carl Sturtivant <sturtivant gmail.com> writes:

Hello,

I seem to recall that there is surprising template to import a 
module and get a type from it inside the declaration of the type 
of a parameter to a function, so that the module need not be 
imported outside of the function definition. I think there was a 
blog article some years ago about this where there was some 
indication that this or something with equivalent effect would be 
incorporated into D in some way.

How do I define a function with a parameter that is a type in an 
outside module while keeping module import local to that 
definition?

Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 2 February 2024 at 00:29:51 UTC, Carl Sturtivant wrote:
 Hello,

 I seem to recall that there is surprising template to import a 
 module and get a type from it inside the declaration of the 
 type of a parameter to a function, so that the module need not 
 be imported outside of the function definition. I think there 
 was a blog article some years ago about this where there was 
 some indication that this or something with equivalent effect 
 would be incorporated into D in some way.

 How do I define a function with a parameter that is a type in 
 an outside module while keeping module import local to that 
 definition?

Are you thinking of this?

https://dlang.org/phobos/object.html#.imported

-Steve

Carl Sturtivant <sturtivant gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 2 February 2024 at 01:23:11 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
 Are you thinking of this?

 https://dlang.org/phobos/object.html#.imported

 -Steve

Yes! Glad it's now part of D.
Thank you.