DIP 37: Importing Packages as if They Were Modules

[deadalnix]

On Monday, 6 May 2013 at 03:16:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> This DIP (which is similar to DIP 15) was discussed with Walter 
> and Andrei at
> dconf 2013:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP37
>
> They verbally approved it in that discussion and it has already 
> been
> implemented by Daniel Murpy (though it hasn't been merged in 
> yet):
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1961
>
> There is also an enhancement request for it:
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10022
>
> The idea is very simple and does not require large changes to 
> the compiler to
> work as it mostly takes advantage of what the module system and 
> imports
> already do. However, it probably does merit having an actual 
> DIP for it as
> well as a public discussion, so I've created a DIP for it and 
> am opening this
> thread so that we can discuss it.
>

I would prefer to find the package file in std/datetime.d so no 
change is required in lookup rules. Whatever the naming 
convention is, I'm all for it.