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?

snek_boi@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

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?

janAkali@lemmy.one · edit-2 1 year ago

Not a language per se, but subsets of languages used for fantasy consoles usually do not implement import functionality. TIC-80, PICO-8, etc. etc. WIKI I wouldn't call that a feature, but it drives you to write less and more space-optimized code.
Now that I think about it, source code size could be a feature in itself, look at codeGolf-oriented esolangs:

Pyth
CJam
GolfScript
Microscript/Microscript II
Seriously
Rotor
Minkolang
Gaia
Jelly
05AB1E
japt
and more...

ChrisLicht@lemm.ee · 1 year ago

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

snek_boi@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

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…

Ethan@programming.dev · 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.

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?

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?

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?

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?