I have yet to use import implied where I do not also use import for the exact same package. That is, so far I’ve never needed to import the implied values from a scope where I did not import the non-implied values from that scope. It’s annoying needing to say this twice.
import foo._
import implied foo._
Could we not alter the semantics of import implied to instead import both normal and implied members? That way you would either say:
import foo._
or
import implied foo._
and we can get rid of the redundancy of naming the same thing twice.
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If this import implied thing goes through at all, I would like to suggest to turn things around. import foo._ stays the same as it ever was, and import explicit foo._ or whatever imports only non-implicit members. Or perhaps have both implied and explicit… But keep normal import as it is now.
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I agree
import word._
When I see such construction in a library documentation I know I will need to learn it by heart or to make hot link to the documentation page. Idea does not provide any assistance to make such imports.
I do not know why it is difficult to make more simple way to manage scopes.
for example: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/scope-functions.html
But please do not make it more hard.