Multiple imports on a single line
Doug McIlroy
doug at cs.dartmouth.edu
Thu Feb 2 14:52:33 UTC 2017
> I often see a confusion between greater expresiveness (good goal) and
> having to type less (largely irrelevant goal). By all means make the module
> system more expressive, but try to avoid "clever" things for convenience.
To expand upon this principle a bit, syntactic sugar that promises to save O(1)
typing in an n-line module is suspect; that which might save O(n) is more promising.
Doug
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