5 Oct
2016
5 Oct
'16
1:02 p.m.
Yuras Shumovich wrote:
Can we generalize the proposal such that subsequent imports shadow preceding ones?
Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
...iirc there is a different idea... allowing explicitly enumerated names... to shadow imports from other modules which didn't explicitly name the same import; effectively introducing a higher-priority scope for names imported explicitly.
Conversely - the original proposal should be modified to remain an error, not a warning, when the symbol was imported explicitly on an import list and then redefined locally at the top level. This is equivalent to defining a symbol twice in the same scope. Thanks, Yitz