support UFCS with fully qualified function names (was in "digitalmars.D.learn")

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 21 May 2013 03:09:15 -0400, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Kenji Hara:
>
>> If you need to use fully qualified name, you can use normal function  
>> call syntax.
>>
>>     auto a = std.path.join("", "\n");
>
> I'm sure Timothee is aware of your solution, but it breaks UFCS chains  
> or doesn't allow them.
>
> So if you want to write:
>
> foo.bar.baz.spam.red;
>
> But you have to fully qualify baz, currently you have to write:
>
> spam(std.somemodule.baz(foo.bar)).red;
>
> Or more naturally:
>
> auto aux = std.somemodule.baz(foo.bar);
> aux.spam.red;
>
> With Timothee idea you write something like:
>
> foo.bar.(std.somemodule.baz).spam.red;
>
> This looks like a small improvement.
>
> (Elsewhere I have even suggested to optionally use typeof and assert  
> with a dot-leading syntax, like sizeof).

Is it just me, or is this not trivially solved with import aliases?

-Steve