Non-ugly ways to implement a 'static' class or namespace?

[evilrat]

On Friday, 20 January 2023 at 13:17:05 UTC, Ruby The Roobster 
wrote:
> On Friday, 20 January 2023 at 13:03:18 UTC, thebluepandabear 
> wrote:
>> ll
>>> a function without instantiating said class, as functions act 
>>> on the class object.
>>
>> Ok, thanks.
>>
>> I think D should implement something similar to `static class` 
>> but I doubt it will happen.
>
> D isn't Java, and never will be.  If you want similar 
> functionality, you put the functions in a separate file, and 
> add the line to the top of it:
>
> ```d
> module modulename;
> ```
>
> and title the file modulename.d.  Then you can use this module 
> as a .class file in java by adding
>
> ```d
> import modulename;
> ```
>
> to the file that uses it.

Also there is various import options such as renamed import or 
static import(doesn't add module to a scope thus requiring to 
fully qualify it)

static import, can be used to somewhat mimic namespaces, more 
complex scenario would be making a module consisting of public 
imports to group things together, but I don't think it is common 
in D.
https://dlang.org/spec/module.html#static_imports

```d
static import std.stdio;

void main()
{
   // nope, this function will not be resolved, compilation error
   // wrtiteln("hello");

   // ok
   std.stdio.writeln("hello");
}
```