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Are there contemporary programming languages that do NOT have the ability to import functions or values or whatever from other files? Are there situations in which that would be a feature? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not smart enough to know, but what kind of use case(s) do you imagine for this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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…

[–] firelizzard 3 points 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.