Playing arround with mixin - alias?

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

biozic wrote:

> On Friday, 21 April 2017 at 09:42:33 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> Martin Tschierschke wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to define an alias for something like
>>>
>>> mixin(import("local_function_file.d"));
>>>
>>> to write only
>>>
>>>     use_local_function;
>>>
>>> which will be translated to: mixin(import("local_function_file.d"));
>>>
>>> (this additionally needs the file local_function_file.d in source/ +
>>> -J./source as parameter for dmd aka.  dflags "-J./source" in dub.sdl)
>>>
>>> Regards mt.
>>
>> nope. the best you can get is `mixin use_local_function;`.
>
> Would there be an advantage compared to a simple `import 
> local_function_file;`?

i doubt so.