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smth thats annoying me a lot about typescript today - why cant i do

import {a, b, c} as myArray from "something"

i have to do

import {a, b, c} from "something"
const myArray = [a, b, c]

gah

imagine you have 100+ exports from an external lib which is basically config stuff for a variety of things

based on externally loaded data, you want to import some subset of those things

so smth like 
import * as everything from "module"
const actuallyUsed = everything.filter(...)

i was doing this before, but then due to some issues i wont get into this basically was causing errors due to some of the exports being invalid (hard to explain what i mean here)

so then i wanted to do 
import {a, b, c} as validEverything from "module"
const actuallyUsed = validEverything.filter(...)

but no i must import and create the array seperately before filtering

and again for some stupid reasons i must filter down from the valid exports to the actually used ones, i cannot provide ones which arent being used currently

Curious: when would you do something like this?

It’s an external dependency I can’t change :(

export const things = [a, b, c]

import { things } from "something"