On 15 October 2012 16:02, Peter Alexander <peter.alexander...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 12:43:59 UTC, Manu wrote: > >> Surely this has been considered before. Any reasons it's not supported? >> > > Yes, it has been considered before. There is an enhancement from ages ago > in bugzilla. > > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/**show_bug.cgi?id=3603<http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3603> > > The syntax you proposed doesn't work, because it conflicts with selective > imports: > > ===[std.d]=== > module std; > void stdio() {} > > ===[test.d]=== > import std : stdio; > > Does that import the stdio function from module std, or the module > std.stdio? > > You could use something like this: > > import std.(stdio, xml, algorithm); > > Of course, there's many variations (square brackets, curly braces, no dot, > no commas...) but it's all bikeshedding. > Awesome. Well, just throwing it out there... any mechanism by which this is possible will suit me!