Import concerns revisited

[Jari-Matti Mäkelä]

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
> Although I don't think anyone particularly was suggesting that it should
> be a default. According to
> <http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ImportConflictResolution> a
> majority of active members only want to extend the import syntax so that
> old programs would work exactly as they do now and new programs would
> have better control over their namespaces. The 'static import' + some
> aliasing would be more than enough to fix this but many coders are so
> lazy (including me) they want import to support aliasing directly. ;)

I have to admit that 'static import' syntax has one advantage over #4 on
that wiki. No-one has come up yet with an elegant way to provide only
FQN access with the 'as'-syntax. Can't we have both. :)

-- 
Jari-Matti