Re: Proposed feature: die on compile with undefined functions

This is a very bad proposal but the idea is solid. You can't change
language dynamics like this. But what we could do is provide an operator
for strict compile time symbol resolution. I think it's a glaring omission
in the language not to have such operators for resolution. And it makes
everything slow and error-prone. Rather than totally changing the dynamic
of the language.

Consider Foo:: will die if the package Foo doesn't exist at compile time.

We could do `::->` which preserves that characteristic and resolves the
function name strictly too..

# Checks for namespace Foo with function bar in compile time.
Foo::->bar(1,2);
# Checks for namespace Foo with function bar in compile time, without
symbol resolution on Foo.
"Foo"::->bar(1,2);

This question comes up all the time. It just takes many different forms.

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