[dmd-internals] Why are there suddenly tons of deprecation messages about imports in Phobos?

[Brad Roberts via dmd-internals]

On 2/22/16 12:53 PM, David Nadlinger via dmd-internals wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2016, at 16:56, Jonathan M Davis via dmd-internals wrote:
>> In that case, using static imports makes sense. They're there to avoid name
>> conflicts when importing a module. But having a symbol be usable and yet not
>> being able to use its FQN is just plain weird.
>
> I wouldn't say it's weird at all. Selective imports conceptually act like an alias for the symbol in
> your local scope. Accordingly, the FQN of the symbol is "where that alias is":
>
> ---
> module test;
> import std.stdio : writeln;
> void main() { test.writeln("foo"); }
> ---
>
>   — David

While I can understand and work with that definition, it's never been the way I've thought of 
selective import.  I always thought of them as exactly like regular imports with a filter applied. 
IE, import this module, but just this set of symbols instead of all of them.