Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 19:13:40 UTC, Zach the Mystic wrote:
> On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 19:01:06 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 18:55:49 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>>> The import example misses that in D you can just do:
>>>
>>> import mod1 = my.long.mod1;
>>> import mod2 = my.long.mod2;
>>
>> I was originally intending to mention how this is possible but 
>> not pushed by language/compiler as the standard import 
>> approach and thus effectively ignored. But it is the longest 
>> part already. Do you thing it is important?
>
> I do, because the article gives the impression D has no answer 
> to this problem. Why don't you use this feature yourself?

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