Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

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On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 05:06:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

> Insert obligatory link: http://drdobbs.com/184401197
>
> Very insightful article.

While i tend to code that way it is not as pretty in C++ as it 
looks on paper when you use namespaces.

namespace ns {
   struct S {
     void b();
   }

   void b(S s);
}

auto s = ns::S;
s.b() // fine
ns::b(s) // uh..

It gets much worse when S is somewhere deep in many namespaces.
ADL helps but it is also unreliable. I think D doesn't have this 
issue.