"Hello D-world!", imports & South African D-naughts

[evilrat]

On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 05:24:11 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 August 2013 at 04:38:13 UTC, Andre Artus wrote:
>> Hello D-world!
>>
>> My name is Andre Artus, and I'm a programmer from 
>> Johannesburg, South Africa.
>>
>> I'm relatively new to D, but so far quite impressed by it. I 
>> have been reading Andrei Alexandrescu's "The D Programming 
>> Language" and Ali Çehreli's "Programming in D" to get up to 
>> speed. Both are quite good.
>>
>> 1st Q: Are there other S'frican D'philes on this forum?
>>
>> 2nd Q:
>>
>> I have noticed Andrei's use of the following construct with 
>> regard to static imports (p 346):
>>
>> static {
>>  import teleport;
>>  import time_travel, warp;
>> }
>>
>
> To answer my own question this seems to be an application of 
> the AttributeSpecifier rule. Which means that "public" and 
> "static" should probably be removed from the ImportDeclaration 
> rule.

they shouldn't. static imports is handy that way to reduce 
namespace pollution(by forcing fully qualifying names), and 
public imports allow import other necessary modules just by 
importing one.