Import concerns revisited

[Georg Wrede]

Regan Heath wrote:

> There seems to me to only be a minor difference in functionality between..
> 
> import std.stdio;
> alias std.stdio io;
> 
> writefln("");    //ok
> io.writefln(""); //ok
> 
> and..
> 
> import std.stdio as io;
> 
> writefln("");    //error
> io.writefln(""); //ok
> 
> in that the latter syntax allows the compiler to _not_ import into the  
> 2ndary namespace and _instead_ into the named one, instead of doing 
> both,  which is what appears does/will happen using 'alias'. I prefer this.

Exactly!

And this is *very important*.