Named multi-imports

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 17.08.2017 23:03, aberba wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 at 13:57:17 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 at 09:54:41 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>>
>>> This looks really clean for code modularity.
>>>
>>> import io = std.stdio : {writeln, write}, ...
>>
>> What does this add? A line like below would be confusing.
>> import io = std.stdio : {writeln, write}, writefln;
>>
>> The following code compiles and the imports are less confusing.
>>
>> import io = std.stdio : writeln, write;
>> import std.stdio : writefln;
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>     io.write("foo");
>>     io.writeln("bar");
>>     writefln("My items are %(%s %).", [1,2,3]);
>> }
> 
> Its more like this:
> 
> import oo = {std.stdio : {writeln, write}, std.algorithm: {filter, map}, 
> …};
> 
> oo.writeln();
> oo.write();
> oo.filter(...);
> oo.map(...);
> 

private struct oo{
     import std.stdio: writeln, write;
     import std.algorithm: filter, map;
     // …
}

void main(){
     oo.write("result: ");
     oo.writeln(oo.map!(x=>x/2)(oo.filter!(x=>x%2==0)([1,2,3,4,5,6,10])));
}