Conventional module name for importing all modules in a package
In Java, if you want to import all of the modules in a package, you'd do this:
import javax.swing.*;
Since D doesn't support "*" imports (and it's unlikely that D would get such a shortcut), this capability could be added to a package by adding a module that imports the other modules. So what should such a module be called? There have been a few suggestions.
These are common conventions:
import mylibrary.mypackage.all;
import mylibrary.mypackage._;
package.d
Since several releases ago, D supports importing an entire package using the package.d
module. This file is used as a fallback by the compiler if the imported module turns out to be a directory. Example:
source/example/package.d
module example;
public import example.types;
public import example.api;
public import example.helpers;
source/app.d
import example; // imports example/package.d
void main() {
// ...
}