Proposal: Inline Import

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sat Dec 10 16:28:54 EST 2005


Shane Hathaway wrote:

> Let me fully elaborate the heresy I'm suggesting: I am talking about 
> inline imports on every other line of code.  The obvious implementation 
> would drop performance by a double digit percentage.

Module importing is already idempotent.  If you try to import an 
already-imported module, inline or not, the second (or subsequent) 
imports are no-operations.

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