Adding properties/members to base types?

[Christopher Wright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Apparently other languages have this feature though.  I'm curious how 
> they avoid the maintenance nightmare.

With good IDEs. (If they solve it at all, that is.)

I would like to see it work with static imports, though:

static import foo;
int i;
int j = i.foo.frob;

You're far less likely to confuse that than if you had to dynamically 
(?) import frob to use the member syntax.