(My previous post was posted before mapi's post became visible due to new account moderation.)
> Only I used `require` for its name. The three related keywords (`import`, `include`, and this proposed new one) should be easy to remember which is which. * `include` reminds people of C #include, and works the same way: [bluntly injecting](https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut1.html#modules-include-statement) code from another file without module distinctions. * `import` reminds people of Python, which isn't helpful due to different namespace behavior, but it's still easy to remember as "import **into namespace**". * `use` is probably the best keyword for "use module without importing into namespace" (that is require module prefix). `load` is close, but `use` is better. * `require` reminds people of PHP, where it's same as `include` except fail on error - yuck. Nim compilation should obviously error out with any of those keywords failing. The same `use` vs `import` distinction is [used in Elixir](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28491306/elixir-use-vs-import): # Import functions from Foo so they can be called without the `Foo.` prefix import Foo # Invokes the custom code defined in Foo as an extension point use Foo
