alt Hacker NewsYou would get a similar thing in C and C++ with a system header in a library directory (maybe some compilers would warn on such a thing?). Most languages don't privilege their standard libraries in a way that would prevent this.
You would get a similar thing in C and C++ with a system header in a library directory (maybe some compilers would warn on such a thing?). Most languages don't privilege their standard libraries in a way that would prevent this.
Privileging the standard library would be a pretty bad way of fixing the issue. It wouldn't prevent the same issue from affecting non-standard libraries, which are also subject to the same issue.
The correct way to avoid this issue would be to require local code to be imported in a distinct manner from installed libraries, with an explicitly defined relative path, which is how it works in the javascript ecosystem. If you want to import local code, you just `import foo from './foo';` (for a module in the same folder, `import foo from '../foo';` for module from parent folder, etc.), and if you want to import an installed library, `import foo from 'foo';`.