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

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.