Duby Syntax Discussion

Duby syntax is inspired by Ruby language. Should we make its syntax a bit more closer to Java to make developers easier to migrate their codes? This page is for discussing about its syntax.

import statement

Currently, Duby uses:

 import "System", "java.lang.System"

Should it be

 import System, java.lang.System

or

 import System, java.lang.{System,Subpackage}

The latter one is from Scala's syntax, which looks a bit more convenient to use than Java's.

I agree the current import syntax needs to change; it was really just a placeholder to get something working. Here's a couple additional ideas - headius

 import java.lang.System => System # (2)
 import System => java.lang.System
 import java.lang.System # uses whatever's after the last . as a name
 import java.lang.System.println # so println becomes a global function? (1)

For (1), is it possible to introduce "import static" for this case? Don't know if it is going to be too like Java - chanwit

I think (2) is feasible. I feel natural with it - chanwit