Re: Packaging and importing

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Vijay Aswadhati wrote:
> > import "a.b.c"
> >    ==>
> > local c = require "a.b.c"
> >
> > import("a.b.c", d, e, f)
> >    ==>
> > local c = require "a.b.c"
> > local d, e, f = c.d, c.e, c.f
> >
> > Realistic examples:
> >
> > import("math", sin, cos, tan)
> > import("string", sub, gsub, find, gfind)
>
>
> Very very nice syntax; This is a 'fits like a glove' proposal methinks. I
> vaguely remember see this as a feature of Python. 

The one nice feature that Python has is:

    from math import *

which imports all names from math into the namespace. I suppose that 
could be done with:

    import("math", "all")

or something like that.

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