How do I defeat the gratuitous qualification of alias members?

[Chad Joan]

On 04/05/2013 01:48 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Chad Joan:
>
>> Hmmm, I don't remember python doing this. Do you mean like Java?
>
> See the solutions used in Python.
>
> But this stuff is long settled in D, so this discussion is now academic :-)
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

I skimmed some of the Python docs on this and it seems reasonable.  In 
Python I'd get my shorter example by doing something like:

from std.stdio import *

Which would put all of the std.stdio module's symbols into the current 
module's lookup table.  I probably used this a lot back when I used Python.

I also noticed something in there that I wish I could do in D:

from sound.effects import echo
echo.echofilter(input, output, delay=0.7, atten=4)

I think this would be analogous to the following D code, if it worked:

import std;

stdio.writeln("Hello world!");

That would be nice.  D seems to force your symbol qualifications to be 
either fully qualified or not qualified at all, which is not always the 
best solution :/

If D can somehow do partially-qualified module names, then please teach me.