On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 10:07:53PM +0000, Vlad Levenfeld via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> >Sure, but people keep using them at the module-level, which really shouldn't be done until the bug is fixed. IMHO, we'd be better off making it illegal to use selective imports at the module-level rather than keeping it as-is.
> >
> >- Jonathan M Davis
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> I'm curious, what's the problem with it anyway? Judging by the posts in the bug report and the bug's own lifespan this must be a real tough one to crack.

My guess is that it requires knowledge of dmd internals that only few people have, and those few people have other fires to put out right now.


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On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 22:24:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> My guess is that it requires knowledge of dmd internals that only few
> people have, and those few people have other fires to put out right now.

Kenji has a PR with new symbol overload resolution system that fixes it but Walter disagrees with proposed rules - at least that was the last state of this PR when I checked.

On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 10:55:14PM +0000, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 22:24:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> >My guess is that it requires knowledge of dmd internals that only few people have, and those few people have other fires to put out right now.
> 
> Kenji has a PR with new symbol overload resolution system that fixes it but Walter disagrees with proposed rules - at least that was the last state of this PR when I checked.

So the way to proceed is to discuss overload resolution rules that Walter agrees with, then?


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