Embrace the from template?

[Dominikus Dittes Scherkl]

On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 18:34:20 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
> On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 12:06:15 UTC, Anton Fediushin 
> wrote:
>>
>> I just published it on the dub registry in public domain (I 
>> hope Daniel Nielsen is ok with that. After all, it's just 3 
>> lines of code)
>>
>> Package page: https://from.dub.pm/
>>
>
> I'm fine with it, public domain is great! Although I would 
> greatly prefer object.d since I don't use dub myself.
>
> FYI Andrei has an open pull request:
> https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1756
>
> But it's stalled due to a bug:
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17181

Me too. I've found from meanwhile defined in so many different 
places, we really need it to be part of standard D. I don't get 
it why it can't be merged just because of a bug that affects also 
other local imports. Ok, with the bug it can't be used everywhere 
in phobos, but it remains useful in so many other places.