Re: [pure-lang-users] Import Statements

[Libor S. <li...@gm...>]

Fair enough. Could the "import" perhaps for now be defined as a syntactic sugar for:

using "lib:somelib";
extern a;
extern b;
extern c;
extern xyz;

Would that work moreless as intended, within the one flat namespace?

Libor


On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:12:49 +0100, Albert Graef <Dr....@t-...> wrote:

> Libor Spacek wrote:
>> Would something like:
>>
>> import a,b,c,xyz from somelib;
>>
>> be possible in Pure, to be used instead of the blunt weapon "using somelib;"?
>
> Not right now, as Pure has only one flat global namespace at this point.
> It can be done, but it's going to be some work, and I have to make sure
> that this doesn't break the C interface with its flat namespace.
>
> Albert
>