Naming conventions for functions in similar modules

[SimonM]

On 2011/06/22 19:16 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/22/11 11:53 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/22/2011 4:47 AM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>>> One problem: std.uni only contains functions for dealing with upper/
>>> lower case and for checking whether something is an alpha character. If
>>> you want the other functions, such as isDigit(), isPunctuation(), etc.
>>> you still have to import std.ascii. And once you have imported both
>>> std.uni and std.ascii, you are forced to disambiguate every time you
>>> call
>>> a function which exists in both.
>>
>> True, but I don't see much of an improvement of:
>>
>> toAsciiLower()
>>
>> over:
>>
>> std.ascii.tolower()
>>
>> at least as far as typing goes.
>
> One improvement would be to relax package lookup such that
> ascii.tolower() is a synonym for std.ascii.tolower. That way everything
> works reasonably nice out of the box.
>
>
> Andrei

I'd just prefer the user to do the following (think it should already 
work, unless I'm missing something?):

import std.ascii;
alias std.ascii ascii;

ascii.toLower();