Import concerns revisited

[John Reimer]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:54:53 -0700, Jari-Matti Mäkelä  
<jmjmak at utu.fi.invalid> wrote:

> 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. :)
>


Really?

import spec.lib.spec as spec.lib.spec;

Doesn't that work for you?

I think all this has been pretty thoroughly covered, Jari-Matti.

-JJR