[swift-evolution] Beef up Imports

T.J. Usiyan griotspeak at gmail.com
Mon Dec 28 19:19:19 CST 2015


+1 in general.

As an aside (In response to David), I have wanted the ability to import
'submodules' from a framework since Swift 1.0. Being able to group related
functionality to import is a desirable feature, IMO
TJ

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 7:01 PM, David Waite via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>
> On Dec 28, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> +1 for this general direction, if not this specific syntax.  It would also
> be great to have import integrate with SPM so you can import a package from
> an SCM URL.  This would be pretty handy in particular for #! scripts.
>
> This seems like it would strongly motivate toward a (possibly
> directory-scoped or system-scoped) package cache. Not saying thats a bad
> thing, just that it seems different than the executable packaging Swift has
> today with “Apps".
>
> -DW
>
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