[swift-evolution] Module importation at project scope

[Vanderlei Martinelli]

Oops. It should be read: "I’m afraid this is *not* a popular requested
feature or, I hope, it was gone unnoticed."

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Vanderlei Martinelli <
vmartinelli at alecrim.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody.
>
> I sent these two messages before, but I’m afraid this was a popular
> requested feature or, I hope, it was gone unnoticed.
>
> *#import (project scope import)*
>
> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160125/008461.html
>
> *Pre-imported modules (sort of PCH)*
>
> https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160125/007706.html
>
> In many languages, including Swift, when we are developing apps
> (frameworks are other history), we have to include/import dozens of
> libraries references. The proposal is to have for app projects (maybe not
> for frameworks projects) a way to say to Swift compiler that we are using
> some module everywhere in the project code files, so we can expect the
> module to be always available without a `import` on the top of each file. I
> suggest one of the two alternatives:
>
> 1) To have a special type of import, `#import`.
> 2) have a kind of “PCH” file where we can list all modules we want to be
> globally available at project scope.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Van
>
>
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