An appeal

[Walter Bright]

Chris Miller wrote:
> I thought it would be fine just importing inside a struct like so:  
> struct n { import x.y.z; }  to achieve the same thing, but it turns out, 
> this style importing is frowned upon and can cause major issues. Perhaps 
> it's a bug that should be resolved? or something that should be forbidden?

There were bugs with it, but were resolved. It's there because:

1) the language should be as consistent as possible. C++ is loaded up 
with weird special case rules that serve to make the language very hard 
to master.

2) features can often be combined in unexpected and fruitful ways; we 
should be careful to not close the door on that unless absolutely necessary.