The problem is that you have to bite the bullet of syntactic inconvenience for either default imports or normal imports. I’d prefer the syntax you suggested, but there seem to be many people who want to make default imports as simple as possible.

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On Sep 8, 2013, at 17:55, Erik Arvidsson <erik.arvidsson at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:modules#syntax
> 
> Currently ImportSpecifierSet is proposed to start with "{" and end
> with "}". This made a lot more sense when we reused the destructuring
> syntax. Now that we are using "as", these curlies look like a remnant
> from the past.
> 
> import {a as b, c as d} from "e";
> 
> I'm proposing we remove these curly braces, giving:
> 
> import a as b, c as d from "e";
> 
> Same issue applies to ExportSpecifierSet.
> 
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The problem is that you have to bite the bullet of syntactic inconvenience for either default imports or normal imports. I’d prefer the syntax you suggested, but there seem to be many people who want to make default imports as simple as possible.