Is there a kernel patch for creating local variables programmatically?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

Often on this list voices have gone up proposing a language addition
that would allow one to automate the following process:

    local concat,insert,remove,pack,sort,unpack=
       table.concat, table.insert, table.remove, table.pack,
       table.sort, table.unpack

by saying Pythonically

    from table import *

or whatever.  Has anybody ever actually produced a kernel patch that
implements something of the kind?