How do I defeat the gratuitous qualification of alias members?

[bearophile]

Chad Joan:

> Hmmm, I don't remember python doing this.  Do you mean like 
> Java?

I meant Python. In Python when you write:

import foo

You have then to use:

foo.bar()

If you want to import just bar you have to use:

from foo import bar

There is also this syntax, used only in special situations, like 
when you are using the REPL:

from foo import *

That imports all the names of foo.



> So I would have to write code like this:
> ---
> import std.file, std.array, std.stdio;
>
> void main()
> {
>     std.stdio.writeln(
>         std.array.replace(
>             cast(string)std.file.read("file.txt"),"\r\n","\n"));
> }
> ---
> instead of code like this:
> ---
> import std.file, std.array, std.stdio;
>
> void main()
> {
>     writeln(replace(cast(string)read("file.txt"),"\r\n","\n"));
> }
> ---
> ???

See the solutions used in Python.

But this stuff is long settled in D, so this discussion is now 
academic :-)

Bye,
bearophile