Many namespace/module systems let you do something like import really_long_name as rln You still get the answer to your question, without sacrificing ters

Many namespace/module systems let you do something like import really_long_name as rln You still get the answer to your question, without sacrificing terseness. For the record, I also tend to use fully-qualified names when it makes sense. Some languages make this impossible though (I'm looking at you, Java and your files with twenty or thirty lines of IDE-generated imports).