Feature Request: Import As (e.g. import java.sql.Connection as SqlConnection)

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Hello,

  Sorry, last message lost its formatting. Here is how Scala does it:

  import p._     all members of p (this is analogous to *import* p.* in
Java).

  import p.x     the member x of p.

  import p.{x *=>* a}     the member x of p renamed as a.

  import p.{x, y}     the members x and y of p.

  import p1.p2.z     the member z of p2, itself member of p1.

     Best, Oliver

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>      Hello,
>
>   Here is how Scala does it:
>
> The clause makes available without qualification.. import p._ all members
> of p (this is analogous to *import* p.* in Java). import p.x the member x
>  of p. import p.{x *=>* a} the member x of p renamed as a. import p.{x, y}
> the members x and y of p. import p1.p2.z the member z of p2, itself
> member of p1.
>      Best, Oliver
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Christoph Engelbert <me at noctarius.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Behrang,
>>
>> Yeah I like the idea, anyhow you know new keywords and Java is not going
>> to be friends :) However you could do something like:
>>
>> import java.sql.Connection : SqlConnection;
>> or
>> import SqlConnection = java.sql.Connection;
>>
>> There are most possible tons of other possibilities. I also like the
>> option in Dlang to import multiple classes from the same package in a
>> single line: https://dlang.org/spec/module.html#selective_imports <
>> https://dlang.org/spec/module.html#selective_imports>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>> > On 01 Apr 2016, at 06:33, Behrang Saeedzadeh <behrangsa at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Any thoughts on this feature? I think it should be relatively simple to
>> > implement and considering these days an app might use various types of
>> data
>> > storage as well as queues, etc. it is very likely for two classes with
>> the
>> > same name but from different packages need to be used in a given class.
>> >
>> > This could be extended to imported static methods too, because sometimes
>> > their names are ambiguous if they are not prefixed with their respective
>> > classes.
>> >
>> > import static java.lang.String.format as stringFormat;
>> > // or
>> > import static java.lang.String.format as sformat;
>> > // or
>> > import static java.lang.String.format as formats;
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Behrang Saeedzadeh
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Oliver Ruebenacker
> Senior Software Engineer, Diabetes Portal
> <http://www.type2diabetesgenetics.org/>, Broad Institute
> <http://www.broadinstitute.org/>
>
>


-- 
Oliver Ruebenacker
Senior Software Engineer, Diabetes Portal
<http://www.type2diabetesgenetics.org/>, Broad Institute
<http://www.broadinstitute.org/>