ModuleImport

[Sébastien Cevey]

On 20 June 2014 11:39, Axel Rauschmayer <axel at rauschma.de> wrote:
> > The `*' symbol universally represents a glob of "everything", but when
> > used to import from a module that has multiple exports, you won't get
> > everything, you will get either the single default export (if there is
> > one) or nothing.
>
>
> What gives you that impression? Quoting David’s original email:
>
> ```js
> import * as fs from "fs"; // importing the named exports as an object
> import Dict from "dict";  // importing a default export, same as ever
> ```

Ah my bad, I must have got confused somewhere along the thread. That
makes perfect sense to me too, ignore what I said.

> > As a final note, and at the risk of erring in the world of speculation
> > that Brendan fears, are we just sleepwalking towards pushing people to
> > work around the whole debate with the "universal":
>
> “are we just sleepwalking” – what are you implying?

Given what you highlighted above, there would be a native syntax to
give people the different cases they might need, so they would have no
reason to do other silly workarounds.

Thanks for the clarification, and apologies for my misunderstanding!

-- 
Sébastien Cevey
Software Developer

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