• snek_boi@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    I know encapsulation is desirable in part because of security. I figured something similar could happen by removing the ability to import anything from another program. However, I struggled to think about other situations in which no imports were desirable, and so I wondered…

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      1 year ago

      There are certainly situations where it would be valuable to be able to place limits on what can be imported, but I can’t imagine trying to work with a language that was completely devoid of imports. Because that would mean 100% of your source would have to be in a single file, which sounds absolutely awful for anything but the most trivial applications.