Cool project idea: organise/remove imports

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Thursday, 11 July 2024 at 10:28:35 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> It'd be amazing if one could hit a key/key combination and have 
> all imports pared down to the absolute minimum (and made 
> local). If only I had the time...

I made this a while ago. It's not quite what you describe - 
instead of typing `import std;`, you don't type any imports at 
all, and instead the tool uses compiler error messages + `.json` 
output to add missing imports.

https://forum.dlang.org/post/baayfburkivhwurpepav@forum.dlang.org

Code is here: https://github.com/CyberShadow/AutoFix (now 
includes an Emacs package).

I'm not sure that local imports are best for all cases. They're 
good for trivial things like pure parsing functions wanting to 
import some utility module. Otherwise, having them at the top of 
the module is a good way to document and understand the 
relationships of the module with other parts of the program - for 
instance, networking imports tell you right away that it talks to 
other things on the network, filesystem imports tells you it uses 
files, same with custom subsystems.