Naming issue importing different function overloads

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Sunday, 30 May 2021 at 18:42:34 UTC, data pulverizer wrote:
> I wonder if it is a purposeful design

It is by design: https://dlang.org/articles/hijack.html

Basically the idea behind it is to make sure that a change in a 
lib you import doesn't change your existing code without you 
realizing it.

You can merge them at the import site by doing

import funs;

doubme myfun(...) {}

alias myfun = funs.myfun; // this line merges them


You can also use a selective import to merge them:


import funs : myfun;
double myfun(...) {}


now both myfuns work.


this works because the `import x : y;` is actually shorthand for 
a local alias.