Re: Another change.

[Michael Forney <mforney@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/27/17, Ori Bernstein <ori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yesterday, another language change landed. Now, if a namespaced
> name is unambiguous (ie, only appears in one namespace), it can
> be referred to directly. For example:
>
> 	use std
>
> 	const main = {args : byte[:][:]
> 		match open(args[1]) /* std.open */
> 		| `Ok fd:	put("opened fd\n")
> 		| `Err e:	put("error opening fd: {}\n", e)
> 		;;
> 	}
>
> I'm not sure how much I like this change, since it's now less clear where a
> function comes from, and makes looking up documentation harder. But it also
> reduces visual noise in code, and makes longer library names more
> tolerable.

I think I don't like this, mainly because of the looking up documentation thing.

What are you thoughts on instead adding the ability to rename an
import like in go?