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I searched for this bug in the bug-reports..
Why are there so many basic import bugs?

--
module main;
import b;

void main(){
  a.write();
}
--
module a;
import std.stdio;

void write(){
  writefln("a");
}
--
module b;
import a; //also with static
--

%u:

> Why are there so many basic import bugs?

Module system bugs are among the most voted in Bugzilla. True modules are absent in C/C++, so maybe Walter thinks assuring their semantics is correct is not so important compared to other kinds of bugs, or maybe such bugs are hard to fix, I don't know.

Bye,
bearophile

%u wrote:
> Yay, free access to a!
> 
> I searched for this bug in the bug-reports..
> Why are there so many basic import bugs?

There's only really one. But it's huge.

Don:

> There's only really one. But it's huge.

Really? :-) I didn't know this. (You are very often right, but I have a hard time believing this).

Bye,
bearophile

bearophile wrote:
> Don:
> 
>> There's only really one. But it's huge.
> 
> Really? :-) I didn't know this. (You are very often right, but I have a hard time believing this).
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

Bug 314 is the root cause of every module bug that I know of. Basically the compiler isn't keeping track of how symbols got imported. So it gets everything wrong.

Don:

> Bug 314 is the root cause of every module bug that I know of. Basically the compiler isn't keeping track of how symbols got imported. So it gets everything wrong.

Bug 314 is among my voted bugs since a lot of time. Even if bug 314 isn't the only module system bug present, solving it is a good starting point.

In Comment 28 of bug 314 Christian Kamm has given a kind of partial patch, as requested. Is it good enough?

Bye,
bearophile

bearophile wrote:
> Don:
> 
>> Bug 314 is the root cause of every module bug that I know of. Basically the compiler isn't keeping track of how symbols got imported. So it gets everything wrong.
> 
> Bug 314 is among my voted bugs since a lot of time. 

Actually it was the most voted bug in D, long before your involvement with D!

>Even if bug 314 isn't the only module system bug present, solving it is a good starting point.

> 
> In Comment 28 of bug 314 Christian Kamm has given a kind of partial patch, as requested. Is it good enough?

Still needs work. Especially, we need a comprehensive set of test cases.