We might even be allowed to import a whole namespace to global and
I doubt it's a good idea. Aside from obvious concern of global space pollution, there are performance concerns - global imports are very hard to resolve at compile-time and they are quite hostile to bytecode-caches (since they make files substantially depend on contents of other unknown files).
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