Import required?

[Harri Porten]

Hello,

reading the description of the "import" directive

   "An ImportDirective causes the simple and fully qualified names of one
    or more public definitions of the specified package to be introduced
    into the current package."

I am wondering whether "import" is required to access definitions inside a 
package. After all, the symbols can otherwise be accessed directly as 
shown by the cited in the Package section:

   package P {
      function f() {}
   }
   P.f()

If "import" is required I suggest to make this "loading" aspect a bit 
clearer in the text. Actually, I am wondering whether there is a way to 
just just load a package without polluting the current namespace. A bit 
like "use" vs. "require" in Perl.

Harri.