Ever since I read https://dlang.org/blog/2017/02/13/a-new-import-idiom/ I've very much enjoyed using the new `from` template. It unlocks new idioms in D and have been so useful that I thought it might be a good addition to the core language. I've found that having it in a different place in each project and always having to remember to import it makes it much less ubiquitous for me.

One idea is we could add this template to `object.d`. This would allow it to be used from any module that uses druntime without having to import it first. The template itself is also very friendly to "bloat" because it only has a single input parameter which is just a string, extremely easy to memoize. Also, unless it is instantiated, adding it to object.d will have virtually no overhead (just a few AST nodes which would dwarfed by what's already in object.d). It would also be very easy to add, a single PR with 4 lines of code to druntime and we're done.

Of course, if we don't want to encourage use of the `from` template then this is not what we'd want. Does anyone have any data/experience with from? All I know is my own usage so feel free to chime in with yours.


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