import concerns

[Andrei Khropov]

Andrei Khropov wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> > There's another way - have a different kind of import declaration, say,
> > precede it with static:
> > 
> > 	static import foo;
> > 
> > which will make the symbols in foo available, but only if they are
> > explicitly qualified. Then one could access bar in foo by either:
> > 
> > 	foo.bar();
> > 
> > or:
> > 
> > 	alias foo.bar bar;
> > 	bar();
> > 
> > but not:
> > 
> > 	bar();	// error, undefined symbol
> > 
> > The advantage of this is it is a bit more flexible and more consistent with
> > the way the rest of D lookups work.
> 
> That's what I was talking about in
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/39348.html
> 
> Finally got a feedback from Walter :-)
> 
> Looking forward to see this in future releases.
> 
> "as" would be nice too but it's just syntactic sugar for fqn import + alias.

I'm sorry, this was an answer to the
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/39784.html .

My damn news client posts it everywhere except the place place it's supposed to
be.

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