Import Aliasing

Import aliasing is pretty useful if you have a lot of files in your project and if you have colliding definition names between your files, or imported libraries. For this very reason you can use import-aliasing, to make definitions from different files unambigue. Here is a small example of this:

The utils.ft file:

use Core.print as p

def print(str msg):
    p.print(msg + "\n");

The main.ft file:

use "utils.ft"

def main():
    print("Hello, World!");

This program will print this line to the console:

Hello, Word!

As you can see, any use clausel can be aliased. The identifier after the as keyword is the aliasing name, which you need to specify when you call the function. If you would remove the p. in the utils.ft file you would get a compile error.