Workaround for DIP 1005

[Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 15:41:56 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
> On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 14:43:01 UTC, Dominikus Dittes 
> Scherkl wrote:
>> DIP 1005 provides new syntax to make it possible to avoid 
>> global imports.
>> Any thoughts?
>
> I like it!
>
> template imp(string mod)
> {
>   mixin("import imp = " ~ mod ~ ";");
> }
>
> auto fun_time(imp!"std.datetime".SysTime tm)
> {
>   return tm;
> }
>
> void main()
> {
>   import std.stdio;
>   import std.datetime;
>
>   fun_time(Clock.currTime()).writeln;
> }

I don't understand why we can't use a template like:

auto fun_time(SysTime)(SysTime tm)
{
     import std.datetime;
     static assert (is(SysTime == std.datetime.SysTime));
     return tm;
}

void main()
{
   import std.stdio;
   import std.datetime;

   fun_time(Clock.currTime()).writeln;
}

I think I missed something.