Visual Studio Wildcard Compiler Directives?

20 Feb 2007 8:21 PM

lucius

Why can't I do this in C#:

using mynamespace.subspace.*;

?

20 Feb 2007 9:23 PM

Michael Nemtsev

Hello lucius,

l> Why can't I do this in C#:
l> using mynamespace.subspace.*;

U can and it works well.

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20 Feb 2007 9:38 PM

Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

Michael Nemtsev <nemt***@msn.com> wrote:

> l> Why can't I do this in C#:
> l> using mynamespace.subspace.*;
>
> U can and it works well.

Not that I know of - the spec doesn't say any such thing, and the
compiler complains with "Identifier expected".

Personally I have no problems with it working the way it does, I only
with Visual Studio made it as easy to work with using directives as
Eclipse makes it to work with import statements...

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20 Feb 2007 9:43 PM

Michael Nemtsev

Hello Jon Skeet [C# MVP],

J> Michael Nemtsev <nemt***@msn.com> wrote:
J>

>> l> Why can't I do this in C#:
>> l> using mynamespace.subspace.*;
>> U can and it works well.
>>

J> Not that I know of - the spec doesn't say any such thing, and the
J> compiler complains with "Identifier expected".
J>
J> Personally I have no problems with it working the way it does, I only
J> with Visual Studio made it as easy to work with using directives as
J> Eclipse makes it to work with import statements...

Yep, misunderstand OP a little bit :)

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miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" (c) Michelangelo