[move] Function-level imports not able to use top-level module imports

[admin-aftermath]

Overview

Function-level imports are unable to use top-level package imports. I have created this package showcasing this issue.

Here is the relevant code.

module module_aliases::module_aliases;

use sui::package;

public struct MODULE_ALIASES() has drop;

fun init(otw: MODULE_ALIASES, ctx: &mut TxContext) {
    use package::claim_and_keep;

    claim_and_keep(otw, ctx);
}

In this example, you would expect the init function to be able to import the claim_and_keep function using the top-level sui::package import of the package module. The code, however, does not compile.

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[tnowacki]

We will discuss, but we likely will not support this. We intentionally require use declarations to be fully qualified to avoid the potential confusion/gotchas that can result from declaring an alias from an alias.