Aliases for namespaces

[baronfel]

Aliases for namespaces [6323201]

Submitted by Daniel Bradley on 8/20/2014 12:00:00 AM
17 votes on UserVoice prior to migration

[ Edited by admin to apply to namespaces only, since as per comment you can already do this with module aliases ]
When using the ‘open’ keyword, allow a namespace being imported, to be assigned to an alias rather than the imported contents being made available to the current scope e.g.
namespace Foo = Some.Long.Path.To.Foo
This would be useful when importing namespaces containing modules/types with the same name to avoid fully qualifying all of the usages.

Response

** by fslang-admin on 2/10/2016 12:00:00 AM **

Thanks for the suggestion. It is quite a reasonable one and it has taken me a long time to mark this as declined. However I have now done so for the reasons listed below.
Don Syme, F# Language Evolution

Original UserVoice Submission
Archived Uservoice Comments

[toraritte]

Would anyone provide a short summary why this was declined? Both links above are broken and they were also never archived in Internet Archive. Thank you!

[smoothdeveloper]

@toraritte https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/blob/d48c35ce216e2bff148937ec028ad61e5c273fdf/archive/suggestion-6323201-aliases-for-namespaces.md

if you browse this repository root, and check "View all archived uservoice suggestions and comments" link, you'll be able to find most of the contents, despite it is not the most convenient, it is still there.