std.string import cleanup: how to fix regression?

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H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d píše v St 12. 11. 2014 v 09:25 -0800:
> Recently, Ilya has been helping to clean up import dependencies between
> Phobos module. In the course of cleaning up std.string, a few public
> imports were removed because they were not referenced by the module
> itself. However, this caused a regression:
> 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13717
> 
> The code that got removed was:
> 
> ------
> //Remove when repeat is finally removed. They're only here as part of the
> //deprecation of these functions in std.string.
> public import std.algorithm : startsWith, endsWith, cmp, count;
> public import std.array : join, split;
> ------
> 
> From the comment, it seems clear that the intent is to move these
> functions out of std.string into std.algorithm and std.array. However,
> there is currently no way to deprecate public imports, so we can't get
> rid of this dependency without breaking user code (one of my projects
> already doesn't compile because of this).
> 
> What should we do? Anybody has a good idea for getting rid of the
> gratuitous dependency on std.algorithm / std.array without breaking user
> code with no warning?
> 
> 
> T
> 

What about:

static import std.algorithm : startsWith, endsWith, cmp, count;
static import std.array : join, split;

deprecated {
    alias startsWith = std.algorithm.startsWith;
    ...
}