What's C++'s `using` equivalent in golang

Question

What's C++'s using some_namespace::object equivalent in golang?

According to the question here I can get using namespace common with statement below:

import (
  . "common"
)

But this would import the entire namespace. Right now I only want to use, say platform definition, something like using common::platform

Is there an equivalent for this in Go, so that I don't have to type common.platform all the time?

Answer 1

The following code comes close in terms of readability, but is less efficient, since the compiler cannot inline function calls anymore.

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

var (
    Sprintf = fmt.Sprintf
    HasPrefix = strings.HasPrefix
)

And, it has the side-effect of importing the names fmt and strings into the file scope, which is something that C++'s using does not do.