Andrei Alexandrescu:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2139
Probably you already know the following things because they see,
similar solutions.
Python uses "__init__.py" instead of "package.d", it can also be
empty:
http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/modules.html
__init__.py can also execute initialization code for the package,
like static this() in D.
Inside __init__.py you can also define a "__all__" variable where
you list all the modules imported when "from package import *" is
used.
If __all__ is not defined, the statement from sound.effects
import * does not import all submodules from the package
sound.effects into the current namespace; it only ensures that
the package sound.effects has been imported (possibly running
any initialization code in __init__.py) and then imports
whatever names are defined in the package. This includes any
names defined (and submodules explicitly loaded) by __init__.py.
It also includes any submodules of the package that were
explicitly loaded by previous import statements.<
Bye,
bearophile
