alt Hacker NewsDo you think approaching the way typescript does it for Bolt is a reasonable compromise here? Bolt already supports full-module renames like
import math as not_math
import abs as absolute, sqrt as square_root from math
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cess11 • last Monday at 11:16 AM
Why?
Put the category first so it makes it easy to skim and sort dependencies. You're never going to organise your dependencies based on what the individual functions, types or sub-packages are called, and sorting based on something that ends up in a more or less random place at the end of a line just seems obtuse.
pepa65 • last Monday at 12:20 AM
Or: `import math with abs as absolute, sqrt as square_root`
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The OP seems to be asking for the Python order of the import statement because it allows for simpler auto-completion when typing it:
In a format like this, your language service can open up `math` immediately after the `from math` and start auto-completing the various types inside math on the other side of the `import`.Whereas the `import abs from math` often means you type `import` have no auto-complete for what comes next, maybe type ` from math` then cursor back to after the import to get auto-completion hints.
It's very similar to the arguments about how the SQL syntax is backwards for good auto-complete and a lot of people prefer things like PRQL or C# LINQ that take an approach like `from someTable where color = 'Red' select name` (rather than `select name from someTable where color = 'Red'`).