On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:38:31 -0500, Chris Nicholson-Sauls <ibisbasenji@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 15:37:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

I don't think imports from a specific package have been considered.

In my personal opinion, imports are a necessary evil and it's sort of a bummer that the most accessible place in any source file - the top lines - is occupied by the crappy legal disclaimer (which, after having talked to a lawyer, I always put at the bottom since being at the top is not a requirement), and the litany of imports that the module is using. I'd make all imports local or put them at the bottom of the file if it weren't too much of a shock to others.

Three remarks on this particular problem.

1. I expect large packages to introduce a module "all.di" or "_.di" to publicly import everything in the package. That could help some use cases.

It is a common practice (usually all.di) but perhaps it could help to establish an official convention. Nothing in the language, just the styleguide. (I know this has already come up and been discussed.)

I like what vibe.d did by having an import all file named d.d

Therefore you can:
import vibe.d;

It's nice, it's clean, and I've blatantly stolen it for a few of my own projects.