Rationale for dropping ModuleImport syntax?

[Axel Rauschmayer]

Context: https://gist.github.com/caridy/eefb9b104874465d4e1c#1-moduleimport-syntax-importdeclaration

```js
module foo from "foo"; // drop this
import bar from "bar";
```

I’m seeing the following contra against dropping ModuleImport syntax:

> Contra: without a way to access the module object, it is difficult to deal with modules with many exports (e.g.: underscore), but we could fix this by using a reflective API to access imported modules

Isn’t this a frequent use case? Which would lead to ugly and very inconsistent code, especially if multiple imports are involved. I also don’t see how CommonJS-style modules could be neatly migrated to ES6 modules if this feature was dropped.

I do agree that the ModuleImport reads a bit strange, but that could be fixed, e.g. via a suggestion I’ve seen somewhere:

```js
import module foo from "foo";
```

-- 
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
axel at rauschma.de
rauschma.de



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