So it's O(N) -> O(1) where N is a number of lines/imports.

But you're right for the readiness. I'm convinced!

2017-02-02 16:52 GMT+02:00 Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>:
> I often see a confusion between greater expresiveness (good goal) and
> having to type less (largely irrelevant goal). By all means make the module
> system more expressive, but try to avoid "clever" things for convenience.

To expand upon this principle a bit, syntactic sugar that promises to save O(1)
typing in an n-line module is suspect; that which might save O(n) is more promising.

Doug


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