DIP16: Transparently substitute module with package

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/4/12 10:53 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:33:26 -0400, Michel Fortin
> <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:
>> Question 2: does std.algorithm.sort refer to the std.algorithm.sort
>> *module* or to std.algorithm.package.sort *function* publicly imported
>> from the std.algorithm.sort module?
>
> The function. A symbol that is not specified as the module name in
> import statement or in a module statement is always *not* a module. I
> think our one saving grace here is that when you want to import a
> specific symbol from a module, this is not the syntax:
>
> import std.stdio.writefln;
>
> So there is never any ambiguity as to whether you mean a module
> identifier or other symbol.

Interesting. But isn't there an ambiguity when the symbol is not the 
last one in the chain? Consider:

a.b.c.x

Could be static member d of class c in module a.b, or module member d in 
module a.b.c.


Andrei