import TARGET (from ASSEMBLY)? (as ALIAS)?
The import construct makes all the members of the imported target available to the current module. So instead of writing:
System.Console.WriteLine("and now for something completely different... ") System.Console.WriteLine("import!")
one can write:
import System Console.WriteLine("anfscd...") Console.WriteLine("import!")
The target can be either a namespace or a type. When it's a type, all the type's static members can be referenced directly by name. So the previous example could be simplified even further:
import System.Console WriteLine("anfscd...") WriteLine("import!")
The from clause can be used to specify an additional assembly reference as well as to disambiguate namespaces. When using a Namespace that is not defined in an assembly with the name of the Namespace, you should use from:
import Some.Namespace from Weird.Assembly.Name import Gtk from "gtk-sharp"
from also accepts a quoted string as argument for weird named assemblies:
import Gtk from "gtk-sharp" Application.Init()
And speaking of assembly references, the boo compiler automatically add 4 assembly references before compiling any code: Boo, Boo.Lang.Compiler, (ms)corlib and System.