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== Order of Import Statements ==

As an aid to maintainability, discoverability and possible automation, it would be helpful to have a simple import ordering convention? Specifically:
* imports from std come first. Root-level comes first, followed by in alphabetical order for sub-levels
* an empty line comes next
* imports from third-party come next. Root-level comes first, followed by in alphabetical order for sub-levels
* an empty line comes next
* imports from other modules in "this" organisation/project/library come last. Root-level comes first, followed by in alphabetical order for sub-levels

An example:
<syntaxhighlight lang="D">
 import std.loader;
 import std.utf;
 import std.c.windows.windows;

 import mango.blah;
 import mango.stuff;
 import mango.abc.otherstuff;
 import mango.things.nicethings;

 public import mylib.stuff
 public import mylib.badthings.hmm;
 public import mylib.goodstuff.garbage;
</syntaxhighlight>


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